Elvis' house

Last Monday, a bunch of people from the church in Los Higos went to work to help build a house for Elvis' family. Elvis is almost 14 years old and has been pretty involved in the church and club. Jose Quezada was able to get some building supplies donated to build a house for them, because their old one (seen in the photo above) is in bad condition.

The picture above shows Cristian shoveling concrete into the hole dug for the new foundation (doesn't their house have a great view?).

The new house is being built around and over the old one. They will build up the walls, they fill in with dirt between the old house and the new walls to the level of the old floor. Once they have the roof on the new walls (and over the top of the old house), they'll take down the old house and pour a floor around the old floor reaching out to the new walls. This way they have a place to live while the new house is being constructed and they can make use of the old floor. Plus, their land is really sloped, and this way they don't have to level a new place to build a new house.

The supplies came from a politician. Elections are coming up soon, so politicians are in a rush to help the people- giving away building supplies, working on road repairs, etc.

There are five girls from Trinity Western University living up in Los Higos right now, and they helped off and on throughout the day with the construction. You can't see it well, but here they are filling a large can with rocks to be thrown into the concrete for the foundation.

Chipo

Chipo showed up at the garden yesterday wearing this dinosaur costume. He said that Maribel bought it for him because he was crying. (I don't know if I understood that right, though). He was walking around acting as if wearing that outfit was quite normal. It was so small on him, too. Look at how his paws only come a big past his knees.

Kermes

On Sunday, Andre's church did a kermes, which is basically a fundraiser for the church. They held it on the basketball court in Los Higos, and had games for kids, dramas, and a performed dance. They sold food and raffled off two cell phones to help raise funds to pay the loan that they took out to buy a drum set for the church.

There was a pretty good turnout of people- I'm guessing around 150. I don't know, yet, how much money they made. I do know that they made almost $RD2,000 (almost $US60) just on the moro (rice and beans) that they sold. They were pretty proud of what they'd made and are hoping to do it again in the future.


Here Daury and Guelito rapped while Negrito and Randy break danced.