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| Pavlik & Marguerite |
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| cement work |
Yesterday we worked on the bucket line all-day. It was very sunny and hot - we almost exceeded our bucket fill from the first day, but because we took a long break to see the milking again, we didn't make it. We did move 6,900 buckets and completed the floor of another room. We also moved two buckets of milk!
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goat and sheep milk
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All of us are sporting sunburns - despite the liberal application of sunscreen.
We dined in a Fuller house with a family who had moved in one year ago. They had lived in their domik for 20 years prior to moving in. A mother, two daughters - the husband works during the summer in Russia on construction and sends money back to the family. She prepared a huge meal for us of fish and many salads that were delicious. We provided the funding to purchase the supplies for the meal. The roasted potatoes were amazing as was the preparation of the fish. She shared many stories about living in her new home and about her family - it made us all feel very proud to be working as a member of the Fuller housing team.
As a side note, we learned that there is no such thing as a mortgage here so a family must provide all of the funding for a house upfront - they must pay for it all at once. Fuller Center, provides the families with loans that they then pay back into a fund. From that fund, another family is able to purchase a house and so on and so on. A house that we're building costs $10,500. Other apartments and houses can cost even less.
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| completing the roof |
I'm sitting in the domik right now (internet and cell phone service is everywhere) typing on Tatavik's computer so now I must go back to join the cement line. The family is giving us a banquet today - they have just returned from slaughtering a lamb and are making us a huge feast.
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Lamb on the BBQ
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