Hey, I'm now well fed again and a little less bitter about the experience :) Here are a couple pics of the houses we built and the families we worked with. We've got in the picture on the right, Alberto and his family, Santiago "the man" and Ave from Estonia. Each house has 18 pilotes (more or less tree trunks) used as a foundation. On top go the ready-made and assembled floors and walls. Then we hammer away at the roof for a while. The finished product is supposed to be a temporary fix for about 7 yrs. as Techo and the families work towards increasing income levels and better health among other things.

A shout out to Niels Sepstrup Sorenson and that history business. I just read the Hispanic America Revolutions 1808-1826 by John Lynch.