The worksite weeks 2 and 3

Ultimately we'll build homes in this whole area

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Making progress!

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Making progress!

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The next set of houses

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Tey gave the gringo the ceremonial first swing

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This ground is really hard!

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Testing the ground with the pile driver

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They all put their shoes back on when we take a break. Wouldn't want to spill water on their feet.

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The team

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The retaining wall

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Sorry Red Sox fans, but Yankee hats are the team of choice here...

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The great thing about designing homes in the tropics is that people love the cold concrete floors

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The first 3 homes

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We pay locals in the barrio to make these cinderblocks and deliver them by horse-cart

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His wall is so much straighter than mine

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These homeowners will have a nice view over their old barrio

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I love the San Francisco hat!

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They brought this guy in to relieve me of my rebar-bending duties

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Ouch

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Who says there's no love on a construction worksite?

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Take my foto! Take my foto!

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There's nothing like a cartload of cinderblock to make your day!

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Working on the living room wall

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Watching them dig the foundation for their new house

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Little girls from the barrio

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Cows and children: standard worksite hazzards in Sincelejo

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Grandpa and his grand-daughter: future homeowners

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These guys are tough

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These future homeowners love to run around pulling out all our lot-markers

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What happens when the concrete dries between your toes?

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Who needs a vice when you hav an old tree trunk lying around?

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She is my favorite

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At the daycare center the UN built

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This guy really wanted his picture taken

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Guess which one is the gringo...

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I love this pic because it reminds me of the old couch on the front lawn of our house in university!

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The open area at the top is where we're building now

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Local boy

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School uniforms

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Colombian mah-jong

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You get a lot more random balls falling into pockets when there's no felt on the table

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You can't tell the wall is buckling from this angle

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This wall only LOOKS as though it's about to buckle

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I'm dying for some pancakes...

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Homemade hack-saw!

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In one afternoon we cleared/leveled a field for 20 more houses

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What a scary pic this is!

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Just wait till summer arrives!

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My mother would kill me if she caught me swinging a pick-axe in bare feet like this...

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