Today me Tom and Diana came one step closer to getting the lockers painted and finished and protected from the weather by a little roof. We have some green wavy plastic roof which we got from the DIY shop up the road from our project. Today we decided, after much discussion, to attach it to the wall in a certain way, at a certain angle. We found a drill (which gave me an electric shock), searched high and low for extension leads which worked (one person had to hold the plug in at a particular angle to make it work), bought screws and rawl plugs, drew a line on the wall where the roof should go, and climbed up the ladder with the drill, and 20 minutes later we had attached the roof to the wall. It wasn't perfect, I'll admit, but it was a solution and given that we have now spent probably 4 days of our entire lives trying to sort the lockers and roof out, we were really proud of ourselves. However, this being Bolivia, Carla and Veronica (2 of the staff), came out and ummed and ahhed, and for the next 2 hours we all ummed and ahhed, and basically the end result was the roof came back down, was chopped in half, nails were bought and tomorrow we will do a whole different thing with the roof. The funny thing is that I'm pretty certain that Carla and Veronica had told us to put it on the wall in the way we did in the first place.
Here's what we achieved today: 0
But, it was quite amusing (in hindsight), that that much chat could be had over a piece of green roof and some rusty old lockers. I wonder if we will have solved it by the end of the 10 weeks here. I was going to take a before and after picture to show you all, and I'm so glad I had forgotten my camera and couldn't, because in reality the after picture would be identical to the before picture now. We could have bought new lockers and done something else with our time, but here time does not equal money, and it is certainly proving to be true that it is all about the fact of discussing and doing things together, rather than actually doing things in a way that makes any sense or has any meaning or is about the end result. I'm starting to see it as kind of being part of some strange work of fiction.
Yesterday we watched a film called Evo Pueblo, which is the story of Evo Morales's life. It was interesting, mainly because we couldn't get the subtitles to work so had to try to follow it in Spanish. I fell asleep for a bit of it, but will keep it and watch it again when my Spanish is fluent.
That's all for now. Hope you're having productive Westernised fulfilling days that make sense. xx
Here's what we achieved today: 0
But, it was quite amusing (in hindsight), that that much chat could be had over a piece of green roof and some rusty old lockers. I wonder if we will have solved it by the end of the 10 weeks here. I was going to take a before and after picture to show you all, and I'm so glad I had forgotten my camera and couldn't, because in reality the after picture would be identical to the before picture now. We could have bought new lockers and done something else with our time, but here time does not equal money, and it is certainly proving to be true that it is all about the fact of discussing and doing things together, rather than actually doing things in a way that makes any sense or has any meaning or is about the end result. I'm starting to see it as kind of being part of some strange work of fiction.
Yesterday we watched a film called Evo Pueblo, which is the story of Evo Morales's life. It was interesting, mainly because we couldn't get the subtitles to work so had to try to follow it in Spanish. I fell asleep for a bit of it, but will keep it and watch it again when my Spanish is fluent.
That's all for now. Hope you're having productive Westernised fulfilling days that make sense. xx
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