Caleb & Della: 6/17/14: Day 107: Live to Work

We left at 8:00 to go help with the house construction. Della and Jaci dropped us off and went on to enjoy the hot springs and a day of rest while we worked. Pedro’s house was completed yesterday we hoped to get the other two done today. We had a total of 13 men and 6 teens/kids. The weather held good and the second house was completed by 1:30 when we stopped for lunch. Clifton and I mainly focused on moving gravel around and mixing the concrete. Carlos’ dad built rickety scaffolding for placing the high slabs. It took; 3 men to hold the scaffolding, 3 men on the scaffolding to receive and place the slab, and another 5 men to carry the slab and hand it to the men on top. It was quite dangerous and several people from the community stopped just to watch and see if anyone might get injured. We ate soup for lunch at Yaritza’s house and had Jell-O for desert. I understood that we were done for the day and we were all tired so I called for Della to come get us. After lunch we were taken on a walk through the coffee plants. Clifton, Fred, and I had no idea where we were going or what for. After a bit of walking we arrived at the third house and discovered that they were planning to continue the work after all. I told Neri that I thought he said no more work today and he said “Live to Work” in Spanish. Della was already on her way so we decided to leave. As we left Hector called us Gringos because we were going… He also asked us to get him 10 bottles of cold water. Della brought the water and I ran down the trail to give it to them. Then we came home and Della begged me to go to a house that she wanted to move to. It was nice but I was tired. Then we went across the street for pupusas. After dinner it rained so hard that the power went out so I went to bed at 7:00.