The Much Anticipate TTW Team Arrival!

With the exception of a very stubborn stomach bug that has seemingly just been circulating between the three full time Adak residents, things have been going marvelously. We have begun the pour on the second half of the building and done the lay out for the upper part with hopes of starting the walls within the next few days. And that is remarkably good news as we are stockpiling outrageous amounts of brick piles everywhere you look. We are flirting with about 16000 bricks floating around property right now. And when you factor in how little light there is at night and the fact that we wear sandals everywhere, that adds up to a LOT of stubbed toes.
The TTW GUTS team arrived this last Saturday and in addition to "weeding" out rice field (which to several of out team members meant walking down the line of planted rice and yanking them all up much to the dismay of the Ugandan who generally tends our fields). But that incident aside, they have been remarkably helpful in transporting bricks to where we needed them and even try their hand at the brick making machine 113 bricks and only a few small injuries to show for it! And on a random note, you would be surprised at how horrified one will get when you tell them that the sauce added to the beans that they are currently eating is actually made my crushing the cockroaches that are so plentiful. I have never seen a girls eyes wider with a shaking spoon frozen half in her mouth.

Our welder at his "workstation". Though, to his credit, he is rocketing through window and door frames.

Our little goat and cat recruited for the purpose of hunting and destroying mice though all tests up to date have yielded miserable results.
Our cook hard at work preparing beans and rice...every day.