Cuarta visita: They say it's my birthday

So I get a cake and a serenade.

Cuarta visita: Roughhousing

Cuarta visita: Assorted views: inside and outside

drug store

a spider on my knee

mango

Cuarta visita: Elesier's new shoes

Cuarta visita: To the beach

Doña Leoncia

Cuarta visita: Witching a well

So one of the things you have to prove if you want a 4Walls house is that you have title to your land.

Last month a family who thought they had title found out they did not. Their little plastic house was actually on land that was dedicated as a road. They got evicted. Now they have moved to a new plot, where they have title but do not have water.  To dig a well, their friend, who must have some kind of electrical weirdness in his body, witched the well. He walked with a wire until the wire twisted. The twisting was a sign that water was below. They are digging now.

Check out the PBS video about water witching here.

Cuarta visita: A new baby

His name is Liam Yakeni Sevilla Lopez. His mom heard the name Liam once and liked how it sounded. She was delighted to learn that it is an Irish name. Someday he will go to Ireland, she said.

Cuarta visita: Granny's English students

I teach English to these kids on Saturday mornings. There are 31 of them.

Cuarta visita: Cristian Fernando, age two

Cuarta visita: Lunch under the mango tree

Ronald, me, Vivian, Jahaira

Cuarta visita: Construction day 5

Cuarta visita: My room

Cuarta visita: Cashew tree

Cuarta visita: You go to the beach

1. you pay $2.00 to rent a hammock for the day
2. you eat salpicón prepared by your family
3. you swim in the Pacific
4. sand sticks to your sweaty skin
5. you have hired a driver named Don Chico
6. he finds a well, hauls out water, and rinses you off

Cuarta visita: From the brick pile to the sand pile

Márlon is his name. I heart him.

Cuarta visita: Bathe the kids on the work site?

That's how we do it in Nicaragua.

Cristian Fernando

Cuarta visita: Fotos from the first few days

A new baby of a family who received a 4W house in 2012

My good friends Elesier and Marlon on the right, with Tomas, on the left. They are all volunteer workers on Doña Leonora's house

Vivian and Pepe walking home from work

Cristiana, Kela, and Kela's brother, playing outside the house where I live