Tuesday, February 24, 2009

School in Honduras


Last Saturday I did plumbing and electrical for school. My dad and I put in a sediment filter so that we could put in a washing machine, but like a lot of things in Honduras you can't fix one thing without breaking another. In the process of cutting the pipe with a sawsall we wiggled loose the top of the pipe that runs up the outside of the house to feed the two bathrooms. So when we turned on the water that runs to up to our house, we got showered with water and all the sludge that had been building up in the pipe. So we turned off the the water and daddy went up and fixed that and accidentally disturbed a wasp's nest so we got a caulking gun and caulked up their hole and that was plumbing.
For electrical, I volunteered to go up in to the ninety degree attic under the tin roof to pull a wire up. (And to build character!) After the wire had been pulled up it had to be threaded down into the bathroom for an outlet for the washer.
And that was electrical.
But through it all, I think I would rather do plumbing and electrical for school than math and writing .