Day 22 (6/23/11)

Today started out with a bang. It rained a lot last night and didn’t ease up much. As I walked into the kitchen this morning I could tell that much of the floor was covered with water from a leak in the ceiling. Following our cleanup of this incident I later went to help teach an English class, got to see my first mariachi band, and later watched The Lord of the Rings in Spanish.
When I walked into the kitchen I could see there was a lot of water on the floor. Soon I could see that water had spread from the kitchen to the dining room and even as far as the living room. I walked up the stairs and told Lina that there was a lot of water on the first floor. I was supposed to be meeting Andrew for workouts at 10am, but I figured I better stay and help clean up. Luigi jumped on the roof of the kitchen (where the leak had started) and began to sweep water off the roof. The reason the water had accumulated on the roof is because there isn’t a very good drainage system to get the water off the roof. All they have is a small pipe that apparently is clogged up. After a short while of us trying to clean up the water, Andrew walked in and began to help.



Once we had swept a good majority of the water out of the house, Andrew, Luigi, and I left to do some exercising. Today running was a good bit easier, but the rest of the workouts we did were harder. I hope to continue to workout like this so that by the time we get back I’ll be much stronger at a lower elevation. Following our workout, Luigi and I were asked to go buy some ham at a local tienda. What I thought she meant was to go the local tienda I knew of which was only a few blocks away. Turns out I was mistaken and we wound up walking for close to a mile to get to our destination. Remember the road that Andrew and I had walked back from when we had gotten lost? Well that’s the road Luigi and I walked to today.
When we got back to the house I made myself a sandwich and we ate some lunch. After this we rested for a while and then left to help out with an English class for the niños at 2pm. For this English class Andrew and I were asked to lead it with Teri’s help. The lesson was pretty simple as we went over numbers and the days of the week. We also played a game of Go Fish with actions in English as the cards. After this class was over Andrew and I went back to Lina’s for a movie night. Tonight we watched both the first and second movies of The Lord of the Rings. These movies were pirated and both in Spanish so it was an interesting experience trying to understand them.
After eating dinner with the workers we watched the last of the second movie and then went our separate ways. Today has been good, and tomorrow we get to go on a trip to the pyramids!