Monday Jan. 11, 2010

On Monday there were many things to do even after all the hard work that was put in last week. The bridge team had to start the coordination of finding suitable rocks for the wingwalls. Luckily many community members were helpful, and by the end of the day there were enough rocks to begin the wingwalls the following day. The survey team continued to survey Nuevo, and came close to completing their project. Monday was also the first day of sampling at the wastewater treatment plant by the wastewater group. The group needed to collect seven samples throughout the whole of the plant as well as take the flow rates at peak periods of flow during the day. The samples collected needed to be filtered and saved for analysis back in the U.S. This is to be continued for the rest of the week.
In the evening everyone was glad to see Norm. He arrived Sunday in El Salvador and was able to join us Monday night. His knowledge and experience with the communities and projects will help to get everything done.
After dinner we went to the poli where we met up with our old friend Will and his amigos. We played both soccer and basketball with the locals and all of us were taken aback by their skill. We spent so much energy trying to keep up with them that we found it necessary to jump into the pool afterwards for a night time swim. By the time we got back to Los Ranchos we were beat and just dropped into bed.