Woke up way too early. My shuttle isn’t til 12noon, I’ve got very little to do, and I’m awake by 7am. Bought a newspaper and saw the photos of the bridges – one third of a 250 metre bridge missing between El Progreso and Tela, and another between Tela and […]
welchez
Apparently it rained in the mountains again last night. And since we’re digging right at the bottom of the hill, our trench filled up with water. A lot of water. The trench isn’t level yet though, so I spent about an hour stood at the side of my trench, pushing […]
Punting on the Trench
Work started off well this morning. It rained in the mountains last night, our trench filled up with water, so we had to leave a wall and start lower down, in the easiest digging ground I’ve found. Barely had to use my pickaxe! Then I finished that and had to […]
Museum
Keegan, who I was in Antigua with for a week, started work today. He’s been in Spanish school in Copan for a week, but I haven’t seen him. We are now right at the bottom of the side road we’ve been on since Thursday. The local guys did most of […]
Keith and Nicki were both off travelling today and Lauren was getting ready to leave so it was up to me whether I went to work or not. I battled with my conscience for quite some time, and eventually decided to ‘do the right thing’. It started raining on the […]
The Accidental Hike
Raining again so my clothes and towel on the line will have to stay there another day. Freddy’s now got a new tuk-tuk. Don’t know if it’s borrowed or if it’s his, but he’s back. We were set to work on another new trench for the main pipe today, digging […]
Turtle Power!
So we’ve gone down one slope and now we need to go up the other side. It’s a steeper slope and it rained a lot last night so it’s really slippy, but I still found it easier to dig than yesterday’s slope. We’ve decided there’s a bit of a conspiracy. […]
Oh, Another Slope to Dig
1 The bugs are quite literally feasting on me. They’re taking chunks out of my arms. Or at least I am cuz the bites itch so much! Don’t know if it’s the ants in my room, or if there’s something up in Sesesmil, but it’s really frustrating! Robin’s last day of […]
Bug Fodder
Happy Birthday Pop! Much better day weather-wise, so the digging wasn’t going too badly. Guillermo came along and took some photos of us digging and working. You so can’t tell that we’re posing! Then he and one of the local guys took us up to the water tank for more […]
Photo Shoot
Decided to go to work even though we didn’t have to. Unfortunately, there’s a hell of a lot of rain due to Hurricane Beta. Oscar showed us the next house that needs a trench. It seems the others weren’t challenging enough for us, so we’ve got a super duper long […]
Rain, Rain, Rain
1 Tried once again to upload my photos and once again I was unsuccessful. Had breakfast in Casa de Todo: pancakes with Maple Syrup! Went to Café Welchez after lunch to meet Robin, Jimmy and Lauren cuz we had organized going to the cinema in Hacienda El Jaral, which is about […]
Monster In Law
Harry Potter was on TV when I left the house this morning: didn’t want to drag myself away! Weekends are very slow here, and it was especially quiet today for some reason unknown to us. I tried to upload photos onto the website, but the internet crashed every time. Robin […]
Cheap Cuba Libres
Whiled away my morning watching Mighty Ducks 3 and Man on Fire. Mmm…Denzel Washington. Robin and I went to find somewhere serving breakfast, but everywhere starts serving lunch by 11.30am here. We both felt kinda bad cuz in Copan the host family makes meals for you everyday, but in Antigua […]
Films
1 Woke up this morning to find some bug has basically walked along my leg and bitten me seven times. Four of them are in a straight line. Spent two and a half hours updating my weblog and then went to Café Welchez and read and listened to my MP3 player. […]
Slow Day
1 I decided to have a change of scene today and sat in the very pretty garden at Casa de Todo (the internet café/souvenir shop/café/launderette) to do my homework. At school I told Karla about Toy Story, then we did more work on pronouns, and then moved onto the preterite tense […]