and houston we have a problemo...my camera is not working. 800 pictures and thousand of experiences later it will no longer take a picture. There is hope it is just the lense. Once I wash away half of the dirt of El Salvador that I am wearing I will go change lenses and hope that it is just a broken lense.
other than that the news of the day is that we are DONE building. thousands of buckets of sweat, many tears and a few cuts and bruises later we have 8 completed dreams.
tomorrow is the key ceremony and celebration. It is going to involve goats, fireworks and pinatas...needless to say a wonderfully fun gong show!
our time is starting to wind down here and I am still struggling with the environment that surrounds me and find myself very unsettled about the world and my place in it.
this trip has caused more questions than answers, it does not wrap up operation simnplify and be authentic in neat little packages.
It is going to take a while for me to process what I have expereinced and how I am I going to go about being the change I want to see in my own little world and also in a global sense.
I have learned something that inherantly I should have known and probably did on some subconscious level, that we are all the same. Humans and our communities are the same. Sure we have different physical environments but on a macro level, we all feel the same things, do the same things, act the same way and are motivated by the same things. Some of us just have a better grasp on what is truly important than others.
One of the comments I received from a co worker has really stuck with me, there are problems right in your backdoor that you should be concerned about. I have thought a lot about this and I am still not sure that I know my position 100 percent but what I do know now is that these are my neighbours in El Salvador their back door just happens to be a little farther away.
buenas tardes amigos.
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