The Pictures!

I´ve already posted the “before pictures” in a previous post. I wanted to take pictures as everything was happening, but I went up north for a week to translate for a team, and came back to a half finished house! (I mean half the blocks finished….there is still a lot of interior work to do!) I was so excited to come home and see so much progress, especially since it rained everyday that week, and so work was slow!

Note: that what we are building right now is phase one of three of our final house plans (it´s all we can afford right now!). Phase one is our “casita” (little house) which is just 5m x 10m, including the bathroom. Phase two involves adding the rest of the first floor, which will be another two times what we have now, making the house 15m x 10m. It will have a nice big open kitchen and living room, and eventually a porch. We are hoping to build this addition in the next 2 years. And phase three, which is a distant dream that may never happen (but we can hope!) is a second floor!

Also note that Nicaraguan building is very different, so things might seem a bit out of order to any North Americans with construction experience.

We planted coconut trees!! They´re just babies right now! But one day they´ll be big and beautiful!

Also, we contracted some guys to dig a well on the property. This is old school well digging! There is one guy down at the bottom digging with a shovel, and the other guy pulls the bucket up on a rope. It´s been 4 weeks now, and they are about 10 meters down. Hopefully they will hit water in the next week!! The view from the top: you can´t even see the bottom anymore!! Its more then 10m deep, and the guy has been chipping out hand and foot holds from the side of the well to climb in and out.