Thursday July 28
Today we headed to the far side of Tegucigalpa up in the mountains to build a wood house for 70 year old Marta (Martha in American). She had been sharing a tiny shack with her brother, her daughter Clauda, son in law and their children Antonio, Alejandra, and a small Nina whom I cannot remember the name.. A friend of the family, Jose, came along to help. He was an amazing worker! trying to keep us Gringas from working too hard LOL.
Sean and Ethan were the only males from our group, and carried a good majority of the work. The rest of the crew was female consisting of Lanetta, Shawna, Emily, Sabrina, Maria, and myself. Lanetta had a prior committment for the last half of the day she left around 1 pm. We worked as hard as we could, but we were still a couple of boards short of finishing when we were forced to stop because of darkness.
Marta was positively astonished at how much we had accomplished, and at the size of the dwelling. 16 X `15 ft. I know that sounds very tiny, but for these mountain people it is truly a mansion. Marta's eyes were like saucers when she saw the inside with a hinged door and window, exclaiming *ES GRANDE !!* Then she hugged and kissed us all as we left. I know I felt very rewarded as we left with a huge sense of accomplishment.
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