Day 4: August 8,2006

Camp la Joya

Dust, dust, and more dust. That pretty much sums up the day. It was our first day of work. I spent the day mixing cement, raking bamboo/cane, working with rebar, and hauling rocks. Since we have limited Spanish, our conversations with the Peruvian workers were therefore also limited. We worked with Freddie, Raoul, Alsidas, and Washington. Peruvians are an extremely hard working people, and put most Canadians to shame. After work, icy cold showers washed away the layers of concrete and dust. Not much else happened today, as we basically just worked on the new cabins. The only other interesting thing that I saw was about 20 massive condors (up to an 11 foot wingspan) circling something atop one of the mountains. Montezuma's Revenge claimed its first victim of our group today.