Day 4 & 5 - Working

Day 4 - Monday, July 23, 2007

Day 5 - Tuesday, July 24, 2007

We begin each morning by teaching at the local elementary school.

Here is Nan, Kio, and Katie riding in the back of the pickup truck.
Here's the name of the school we teach at. Somewhere the translation got lost because "Banturua" does not mean "Tourist Information Service."

Katie and I are teaching PE and here we have the children playing capture the flag. These are the 5-6th graders. We have the students wearing blue and yellow jerseys to encourage future UCLA Bruins! Oh yeah, it was hot!

With the younger kids (3-4th graders), we had them play dodgeball.

Nan and Myles are teaching the "Magic of Math"

Kio and Suzie teach Art. Here is one of the art projects.

One of the biggest beetles I've ever seen.
After teaching, we head out to the swamp/rice fields to build the fence. SDRF is planning to fill in the 2-3 acre swamp with dirt and convert the area into a grouper hatchery. The project is expected to be completed by mid 2008. The barb wire fence is required to keep animals such as water buffalo out of the hatchery.

Here are the concrete posts that we use for the fence.

Here are the guys carrying the posts across the swamp.

Here are the completed posts for the road leading to the swamp.

Suzie digging a hole for the concrete posts.

Kio digging.

Myles digging.

Nan and Katie provided the dirt/mud that we used to fill the holes once we planted the concrete posts.

Here are the locals that we worked with - (left to right) Ali, Pom, Dusit.
At the end of the day, we hit the beach to wash off the sweat and mud.
Here is a beautiful picture from the MRI center.