Brick Picking, Brick Dropping, and Photo Popping.

Another day - another morning working in the garden. But this time I'm making it interesting by using music. It's horrible - my left ear bud blew, and now I can barely hear it. And those things cost dollars!!

The bathroom is slowly getting done. It should be finished by next weekend. Just needs a bit more bricks and a roof.

And here is the pipeline that Keiran and I were working on in the first days of my arrival. You can't see it now that it was filled in. It was about a foot and a half deep by forty  feet long.

8 AM everyday is prayer and updates. Here is the group all gathered.

After the usual five minutes prayer, I was sent back to the garden to work for the next hour and a half, before Evance would come to get me. We would be going to get eight hundred bricks for a house in the area.

 Here are a few photos of the garden.

This is a mango tree growing. It's probably less than a year old.

My job in the garden this morning: To shovel dirt into a pile for them.

You remember that cough I had. Darren has gotten it, and it sounds worse. He tells us that he was up in the night trying to breathe, and how it was excruciatingly painful. I told him that he should rest for the day, but he said no: "You don't rest around here when there is work to be done.  A leader never rests." I just left it at that and started shoveling. Lol.

After I finished that, I moved on to chiseling. I had a few cracks that needed to be done. I was only able to do one before I had to go out with Evance. Here is a shot that Darren took between the top of the wall and the roof.

After I chiseled, I had to sweep up my mess.

This is a good photo that Darren took. I don't know if you noticed, but I am behind him. That very white thing that blends in with the wall.

And now: TRACTOR TIME!

The Ford

We took off down the road. Evance driving and me in the trailer.

The ride was so painful. It was just so unbelievably hard on the back, legs, and butt. I would not do that again.

On the way, we picked up a ton of schoolboys. They had a day off of school, so I guess they decided to join us in stacking bricks.

We arrived at the brick stack. It was a few hundred feet from the Shire's shores. All that you see before the Shire are people's gardens.

And here is the stack. We would only be doing one load of bricks today. That is about nine hundred. One tractor trailer load's worth. If we did the whole load, it would have been over nine thousand.

I jumped right into the back and started helping all of these school boys load bricks. You had to load fast, or otherwise you might get a brick tossed at you. That's what happened to me in my first week here.  It took us over thirty minutes before the load was finished.

School's out!! 

Evance managed to get a photo of all of us on the back here heading back to the village.

And unloading them. As soon as we finished unloading them, I started feeling lightheaded, and that I was going to pass out. I didn't bring my water bottle with me this time, so I know that is what the reason was. I ran over to the nearby market and purchased a soda on credit - to be paid in a day or two - and then ran/walked a kilometer back to the house. I then drank a ton of water, sat down to cool myself, and then took a shower.

At two PM, I went over to the shop to help Tom out with anything needed to be down. I took this one on the way.

I paid Tom back his two hundred kwatcha for the pop that I bought. The rules to get the money: He had to make it look like it was a payment for something undercover. Lol. He had a good time laughing at this.

Another nature shot taken from the shop.

Robert, the youth-pastor, came by for a bit to chat with us. After awhile he had to leave on a dirt bike that he was borrowing to drop some people off at their house. He left me his iPod to take care of, so I had fun messing with it. Left him a bit of memories.

The cash register and I

K & I

Bug eyed

The 'Rock' Johnson Jr.

And this one can speak for itself

The photos might look bad, but that is because I had to take a photo of Robert's IPod to keep the photos. He couldn't really figure out email on there.