Friday, March 16, 2012

Sunday, our first full day of work

                                                        Breakfast on Sunday morning
                                                 Morning worship with Joe Martin
                                               Elias providing the morning devotional
                                           Joel, the principal of BAJC and his youngest daughter
                                                             Calcutta town market
                                                             Calcutta town market
                                 Karen at the Market shopping for groceries for Meals on Monday
           Chinese market where we purchased eggs, Lots of them, cleaning supplies, sodas, deodorant, bath soap, and several Belizian Machetties!!
                                               Masa flour at the tortilla factory
                                                        Worker at tortilla machine


Worker at tortilla factory... it is extremely hot and notice how beautifully and professionally she is dressed for this hot, dirty work.
                                     
                 Worker in the lye vats working the corn for the flour. The corn comes in whole and dried then is soaked and cooked in large vats of water and lye.. then rinsed and ground for the Masa. The tortilla's are absolutely wonderful!!   
         

 Melody and Ethan riding in the "gutter" of the van while in town. There were 11 of us in a 7 passenger van!!
                                                                      Lunch line!!
    Miss Jaque' made us Belizian beans and rice with a wonderful spicy homemade gluten topping and salad.
                                Dinner  Prep. Cooking 3 meals per day is a lot of work for 40 people!!
          Beginning work .... mixing concrete by hand, carrying water, sand and gravel in 5 gallon buckets.
Rock brigade. You would pay a premium price for this beautiful white rock in the states. We use this for landscaping, they use it for fill!!
                            Checking the level line over the footings. Which we are pouring by wheelbarrow.
                                                           Below, Elias filling a rock bucket.

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