Mexico 3-2011 ch 7
Working on Habitat having great experience. We are in a great hotel on beach. Got to enjoy the beach Sunday. Started work Monday. This is a community of Mexicans who are building homes on 5 acres. Many are related. There are 38 people and 19 families. They are Aztec heritage and are very attractive people. Many only speak their indigenous language which is Nautahl. At least four generations. We are building for a couple with one child . Salvatore is 22 and Erica is 21. They had a presentation for us the first day and Erica gave us all a rose. Salvatore has worked really hard with us and many of his friends and family. They are required to put in so many hours of "sweat equity" but friends and family can also he counted in the hours. They are very hard working and continue to work after we quit at 4:00. Even the women help. Pregnant women carry concrete blocks and buckets of mortar. Some are barefoot. Unbelievable.
Fred gets out his Spanish lessons from
Guanajuato each day after we work and got one of the 11 year old girls to work with him. She seems very proud he picked her. But other kids have gotten involved.
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Sharon Adair Winslow
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