¡HOLA!

It maybe a while before I can post again, next week we might be in Asuncion, to find out out future sites, and the week after we go to visit those sites and sort of see where we are going to be living for the next two years, and also to meet one of our community contacts, one of the people who is going to help us in our community.


While in training we have whats called A Dia de paractica, where we started by getting to know our community, and seeing what it was we could do to help them, sort of like being a volunteer, which by the way, I will be one month from yesterday. So for our Dia de practica, Ali another Volunteer and I met a woman called Ña Rosa, and she showed us her well which right now looks like this.



The top isn't so safe, and aside from the fact that its easy for stuff to get in there, there are vines growing down into it… not so good.



Here is the inside of the well where you can see the vines growing in to it.



So we asked her if we could make her a new tapa (thats the top thats keeps stuff out) and clean the water as well. So today Ali and I began to build the tapa, with the help of our friend Amanda.




This is me wielding a machete Hake (Guarani for careful)!




The we cut down Bamboo, in guarani Taquara, and measured and cut it




And this is as far as we got, to be completed next week.





So next week we will finish the tapa by adding the rest of the bamboo, and making a door. And finally maybe darning her well so that we can go in it and clean the bottom, but we have to talk to her about that. Happy Easter to those who celebrate it, and Passover to others, and to anyone else I left out, Happy first week of April.



As always heres a sunset!