I'll get a gps reading on the new site today or tomorrow and get it posted for y'all. A before photo would likely be nice, too, eh?
OH OH OH...check this out!!! Don't forget to check out the video...a really cool photo montage!
Today we went to the school site 4 and began layout for the new school so that the grubbing can begin (grubbing: rough grading of the site). We are clearing a home of rubble next door and will use that to level and grade the school and brought the bobcat with us...unfortunately the land between the school and the home is a quagmire. Tomorrow we will return with a large crew of folk to move the rubble by hand. More delays. Sigh.
This evening I went with Val to a store she sorta new the location of in Leogane. Her boyfriend was trying to get some laundry done and she really needed to make it to the store so I went with her. While we are walking I'm pretty nervous: it's dark, we are in a totally unfamiliar area of the city for me, and she only kinda know where we are going. I can't speak much Creole and that makes me super nervous since I won't be able to tell if we've walked into a 'bad neighborhood' or situation. It's not about anything other than language for me. That's the nerve wracking point for me. It's the crux of so much of my angst and trepidation.
I just checked: it's 9:30pm and it's 90ºF in my tent. It's been blistering hot the past few days and everyone is dragging. I shot a temp reading at the concrete yesterday and at 4:45pm it was 107ºF. Last night I had the unique sensation of getting out of the shower and actually walking 20 steps before my underarms started sticking - for that 20 steps I actually felt clean (well, clean down here is...graded on a curve), fresh (ditto), and dry (no curve needed - you are either dripping in sweat or you aren't. Sometimes it feels like someone is driving a plunger down thru my body and DRIVING the sweat out of my body.
Tom and Pat left this morning. I missed waking up and saying goodbye to Tom, dammit. He stopped by my tent but I was asleep with my headlamp on looking like I was reading away. I came awake at 4am and didn't want to go back to sleep for fear of missing Tom so I sat up and started reading. That didn't work. He couldn't even roust me!
I'll try to get up and post this in the morning before I get to work. It's 6:45 am not and I have to get my ass moving...while the rubble crews are working their magic I am putting together some of the free 12'x12' shelters we received so we can figure out how we are going to utilize them...not to mention how to reframe one wall so they have a DOOR! Now we know why they were free, eh??? hahahahahahah LOVE TO ALL!
