Pirates de la Prusia

another week in La Prusia mixing cement and working on a tan.

The houses being built are designed by an architect called Teddy Cruz, who works from Boston. Angel, is a 70 year old proffessor at harvard (but retiring this year...)spends his holidays in La Prusia, and relays the information from the architect to the constuction team. The design is more complicated than the previous development of homes, but should still be affordable. The previous homes were supposed to cost $1000 dollars but due to rising oil prices they ended up costing more like $2500. Two contstuction teams are paid individuals, and the labour is not, i.e.the volunteers and future owner of the house. See attached photo



More new Spanish and a Canadian volunteers have arrived and the houses should be full next week. 8 people in our house and one bathroom, fun fun. At least I wont have to cook for a month or so...I didnt make enough tuna burgers last time oops! Although I got some pastrys and Nica sweets for dessert, its all about the dessert! Some of the Nica sweets I bought were these pink coconut sprinkles dried into fingers, the colourings must be stong because i was pissing pink for 4 days.

Apart from construction there was a trip to the beach for kids who had attended "summer school" (its their summer holidays). The theme was pirates, and the treasure was sweets. Different games, the funniest being when teams of 5 kids had to wrestle the big South Carolina volunteer sumo style, "yall give me this game cos am a big guy?".

Big baseball game in town last night, Granada vs Leon. Tried to get a ticket at the stadium but it was packed out, the atmosphere sounded awesome from the outside! so instead we went to some bars to sample the flor de cana. Its the smoothest rum that you can drink easily with some ice. Got this cool video outside the stadium when they were restocking beer..



In nature watch this week theres been an ant attack in the orange volunteers house. There were many casualties and the battle continues.