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Published on Saturday, April 23, 2011 Leave your thoughts »

The first job I was a part of after we were introduced to Ciudad was helping evaluate the existing water quality (they got their current water after it already traveled through other communities). I worked with Maggie and Carrie in Menocucho to test the streams that fed into the water supply. One day while doing this, the Professor in charge of MOCHE (Professor Billman) forgot to pick us up and take us back to Ciudad de Dios. So instead, we walked about 1.5 km towards the community along the main road and then took a combi the rest of the way. It was quite an experience, especially the combi ride. Combis are very small vans that work like buses. They pick up people at stops and then when you need to get off you pay and get off. Well the one we were one decided it wanted to be a clown car and pack as many people as humanly possible into it. By the time we got back to Ciudad, we only had time to collect water samples from the taps in town.


The next day we did the same testing in the morning, and in the afternoon we were given the opportunity to make adobe bricks. It basically consisted of putting mud into a mold and letting it dry for 15 days. The entire process was "extremely tiring" (according to my journal entry), but I also noted it was a lot of fun. Not every day do you get to make bricks that will be used to construct houses and schools. Since there were so many of us working, we finished early and left Ciudad de Dios by 2:45 PM. Not too many exciting or new things were taking place around that time... and really throughout our trip our daily activities remained fairly constant. I'll write about certain changes in our routine and trips we took/experiences we had that were different from our normal day-to-day happenings.

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