Christina: Day 4

Hello everyone! We´ve all so far survived to the fourth day of the trip. Rurrenabaque is amazing along with all of the people. So far most of what we´ve been doing today is working. We arrived at the clinic at 8:30am, greeted by one of Leo´s jokes, who is one of the doctors at the clinic. We headed outside to where the water filters are and got to work. My job along with acouple other people was to shovel sand into a wheelbarrow than bring it by a hose and clean the sand. We did this for about 2 hours, it was a lot of work but it did make our hands feel very soft after! Then we dumped all of the sand into a pile and added cement to that. We used shovels to mix the sand and cemement. This is where the back breaking work started. Once it was all mixed together we added water and started mixing all of that. This was even heavier, it was entertaining because some people got really into shoveling (Marandah). Once all of the mixing was done it was time to put all of in into the filters. I was one of the people who lifted the cemement into the filter, that was a hard job to, we are getting quite the workout here. Other people had jobs as well, one of the best ones was using a big mallet and slaming it against the filter to get rid of all the air bubbles trapped inside. Then we were all done, job well done! Now we have to wait for the cement to harden before we can do anything else. Later today were going to paint filters that have already been made, can´t wait for that. Everythings great here and I am looking forward to many more amazing days to come :)

Hasta Luego!
Christina