Wed, August 1st: Team "Similar Operation"

Chelsea's turn: Our apologies for slacking on the blog. Things have been busy in Santiago! As Susanne mentioned, we are split up in to different groups. My group (Jessie, Kelsey, Aaron, Billy, and Steve) is more towards the countryside on Santiago nearer to the Andes. We are building two rooms for a 5 month old baby boy named Carlitos who has severe respiratory problems. He has a very difficult time breathing, always sounding wheezy and hardly has the lung capacity to cry. However, like so many other builds, everyone is happy and enjoying life. Our typical day starts out with about an hours drive to the house (traffic here is insane!), morning tea and bread with the family, and Julian's (our site maestro)extreme Stretching/ not really! He has his famous "touch the stars" and "feel the country". Every time we ask a question his answer is "its possible" and when he wants us to do something again in a different place he likes to say "do a similar operation" haha-he has us laughing all day and needless to say he is very entertaining. We have two other skilled workers on our site as well- Christan and Pablo- both of which are hard working and fun to work with. Over the past few days, we built the floor, exterior walls, and framed the interior walls. Days are flying by and we are all discovering new muscles we never knew existed! :) If anyone is looking for framer, we've got you covered.