Thursday Morning May 20
My apologies for not keeping up, we are busy, with long days and evenings that seem to pass rather quickly. With the help of our two construction bosses Pastor Giron and Mario we are coming along well. In this photo the columns have just been poured and are still in their wooden forms. The man standing up high is Noel, and he poured each one by hand as we used 5 gallon buckets. We will pull the forms off today and move to the inside columns. Lots of helpers still come each day and jump right in and work hard along side of us. Also, they very patiently listen to our fractured 'Spanglish' and help us with understanding each other. The children are beginning to get more used to us and we are making more and more friends with them. The school has had to change its schedule into split sessions on order to accommodate the physical disruption that we are. But all are doing well.

We presented Directora Santos with a team T-shirt and she was quite pleased. Each of us are going to receive a T-shirt with the schools emblem emblazoned on it. That will be special.
We went up to Picachu last night to see the city from the overlook, and afterwards we went to El Patio with Pastor Giron and his wife Maria Julia as our guests, and had a wonderful dinner.


All of the concrete is being mixed by hand and that's quite a process to see. Today we will continue on these front columns and hopefully get into the ones on the inside of the class rooms. On Friday we hope to get the horizontal beams in place. They are called the "vigas". If we can get them done the all will be ready for the welder who will come next week (after we are gone) and he will install the floor joists.

We quit early yesterday (1:30 pm) so that we could go up to Picachu and view the city from high above. There is also a 120 foot tall statue of Jesus that is quite impressive. And we took a team picture there as well.