Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Road to Recovery II




Well this is the second attempt to update. My last post vanished into the ether when I hit send. I fell ill with some sort of flu and had to miss a day of work yesterday. Today was back to the well. As usual ir was full of water and sinking lower into the muck. The electric pump can no longer create enough lift to draw water so it was bucket after bucket by rope hauling. It is raining this evening so it may be worse off tomorrow. But we will plough ahead as we have reached the point of no return. Adrian believes that it has sunk enough to pour the last concrete this week. The opening of the orphanage has been delayed by about two weeks as it stands now.
Today Adrian invited us to join his family to watch his children perform in the local festival folklorico and then have Sunday dinner with them. They are very involve in the musica folkorico and the whole family takes part to preserve the ancient culture. Unlike the Spanish who came in 1532 and destroyed the amazing Inca archectecture to prove that the one true church should rule over all of the land. The people still carry the sadness that goes with losing one´s past.
I´m very dissapointed that I won´t be able to join them as I already booked a trip to Machu Pichu. Hopefully I´ll get close to thier culture there.
If you want to get a bird´s eye view of the worksite put these coordinates into google earth S 13.35.449 W 71.46.535. This should put about 20 meters from the well. Let me know what you think if it works.
Here are a few shots from today.

1 comment:

SMALL said...

hey pops, looks like your having a good time and working your ass off! good luck with the well! see you in a week or so