Sunday, July 11, 2010

My Small Help Volunteer


July 8, 2010
by: Marlo Grabner

Today was a busy one for us volunteers in Ollantaytambo. The Loki
Hostel once again brought about a dozen hard working volunteers from
Cusco, that were eager to help us make some much needed headway on the
Cuylandia project. Not only did they assist with the transportation of
hundreds of heavy adobe bricks, but they put their pick axes and
shovels to work as they dug out about 40 yards of much needed trench
for water retention around the Cuylandia perimeter. This will be a
huge help for the workers that have been finding creative ways of
storing the water they need to mix with the earth and help create the
many more bricks that are needed to complete the construction of
cuylandia. In other news, we had a very fruitful meeting with many of
the cuylandia community members this morning where they committed to
helping us make the last ____ adobe bricks needed.

While Leander and the Loki volunteers labored away at the cuylandia
site, Dan, Marlo, and Cecily (3 of the current in-house volunteers)
kicked off the very first English Class for the students of La
Escuelita de Paucarbamba. Today, we covered the basics of English
language like the alphabet and numbers 1-10. Highlights included
singing the alphabet song together as a class and ending the day with
a lively game of “Gringo” Bingo! It was a great day of learning for
students and teachers alike, and we´re all looking forward to next
week´s class when we´ll learn some basic English phrases and, of
course, some new games and songs.

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