From the ground up

After a week and a half of shovel, jembe and roof, there have been times that each of the team has been thoroughly exhausted, not used to the 7000‘ elevation. . We have moved approximately 6000 cubic feet of dirt to level the southern dormitory. The dirt was extracted from 2 enormous termite mounds. Today, we completed the first full day of building footers in the northern dormitory. There is 400+ feet of rough footers almost 3‘ deep in the building. We have leveled the southern end of the building's perimeter and hope to complete the leveling of remaining footers in this building on Friday.
We have developed a wonderful relationship with our lunch cook, Jane. She is from Elderot and fixed us a lunch today of Thanksgiving proportions. It included sliced oranges, mango and papaya, spaghetti, rice, avocado salad, chipati and chicken stew. Jane will get my boots.
Mike and Evan, the interns, returned from their excursion to Kisumu, on the banks of Lake Victoria. Other than cramped matatus and Mike’s affinity for mosquitoes , they had good reports of baboons, pizza and World Cup.