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We have been working HARD. My house is a mess, I haven’t had time to do laundry, I am burnt up, I haven’t worked out because, ‘my everything hurts’ and It feels good to have the walls up.
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Go Bucks!
Thanks Central Ohio Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Association for donating to our community center!
Peace Corps at Ohio State University:
http://www.facebook.com/OSUPeaceCorps?fref=ts
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Today my host dad and I carried PVC tubes for 1/2 a mile and made multiple trips. For 8 hours we burned empty cement bags, partially melted the tubes and inserted a stake so that they would fit together. We bought gasoline and carried a pump down into a ravine so that we would have water to mix 60 bags of cement for the community center. I got blisters on my hands, sunburned, poked by thorns, cutunder the eye, dehydrated and exhausted. Then the incline was too steep to send the water up. In a moment of complete failure and homesickness I told my host dad that in my country I would just turn on the spigot. He looked at me smiled and said, Danny that’s just how shit is here. I laughed and then several 5-8 year old boys helped me carry some of the little tubes back. Although I was dead on my feet I carried 3 of them up hill joking about how much they weighed saying that I was going to make a fortune selling them by the pound like cows. They ran off into the meadow and were happy to have helped their Americano. Sometimes a failure leads to a good ending.
Update: My host brother is a mechanic so we downloaded the manual, unscrewed a lock to release the throttle a bit and managed to send about 1,000 gallons up an even steeper incline. Win.
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