We did it! The school may not have a roof yet, but all walls are up, banos built, leveling fill material dug up from elsewhere and hauled into the three classrooms before the concrete floor is poured, and it is painted outside (lilac with yellow trim ... almost LSU colours!). We also did a LOT of site preparation work for 4 new casas ... the easiest of which might have been about one foot elevation difference to level up to the toughest site which was about a four foot elevation difference. BUt enough with the engineering talk ´:)
Probably forty kids came out with hand made quetzals mounted on Guatemala banderas as thank you gifts and their handsome teacher thanked us from their hearts for our work. Tears flowed. We left to a cacaphony of fireworks.
This has been an amazing experience to be in the space and place of our fellow humans of whose lives we knew nothing about. We not only built a school but bridges too. We are so proud of the kids on this trip as they worked steadily on all sorts of jobs and also really engaged with the village ninos.
I´m off to now to pizza and cerveza back at the hotel as restaurant plans were scrapped due to our three hour standstill in traffic returning to Chichi tonight.
All is well. Life is good!
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