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Rain means more work for EWB

No sooner than I finished my last letter it started raining here. Because of this we had to unfortunately cut our day several hours short. Because of this extra work had to be done yesterday and we were unable to spare workers so this is why I was unable to write yesterday.

Everything is going well here. The stairs for the school are completed and one bathroom is almost completely fixed. We are mostly focusing on the columns of the school building. We have several people currently framing the columns, while those leftover are constantly mixing concrete and pouring it into the columns. We hope to finish framing everything today and finish pouring tomorrow. We are also hoping to start putting up the first two roof trusses today.

We are all very worn out from all the work that we are doing, but are making sure we are keeping on task. When we went to lunch you could see the weary looks on peoples faces, but after another amazing meal from Claudia at her restaurant "Los Carretas de Jose“s" everyone felt far more refreshed and ready for another afternoons work. She has made us some wonderful Guatemalan dishes such as black beans eggs and tortillas. She has also made us feel a bit more a home with a couple of her meals, her club sandwich included.

Now I must get back to work so that we can hopefully finish soon.

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