Saturday and Sunday have been more work days. Donette's friends from Guatemala arrived Friday night and have been a big help. They have made hundreds of these (I know because I asked them), so they are old pros at it. At this point we are almost finished with both of them, but we don't think we have enough time to get a third done, so we have decided to take a whole day off tomorrow instead of the half day we had planned.

Tonight we had plans of heading to a beach after working to have a moonlight cookout. As we were cleaning up the work sight it started sprinkling on us, but everyone said it would clear up by the time we got to the beach. Well, it did clear up during our ride, but then five minutes before we got there... Rain, and a lot more than a sprinkle. So we turned around and spent another 30 minutes driving back from the beach and had our our cookout food in the hotel kitchen. All in all, we spent more hours in the car yesterday than we did the first day when we drove here from the airport. We had fun hanging out last night though and talking and laughing and negotiating what we will do totday on our day off. I'm still not sure what we agreed on (maybe we didn't agree yet!) so we'll see what we end up doing. I'm voting for the mountains.

I thought I would tell you more about the latrines we are building. The bottom part that we built the first 2 days is split into two containers for the waste, and then of course we are building the covered part on top for where the person goes to use the latrine. The last step will be to seal the two containers so that there will be now way for the waste to get out and contaminate their water table. (As of now, all of their waste is doing just this...) Each time a person uses the latrine, there is a special mixture of bacteria that is sprinkled over it to continue the composting process. One side of the latrine will last one year, and then they will switch to the other side of the latrine. After some time the side that is not in use will be composted enough to be harmless, and in fact beneficial to the soil, and they will use it for their farming. In this way, the dangerous human waste is kept from harming their water, and then transformed into something good. I am thinking of putting one in my backyard. Do you think I can get away with it?