On goes the roof!
Spent the day leveling floors inside, cleaning the sides of the building, moving bricks/rocks/dirt, and cleaning up the site.
After work, we dropped by the first house, which now had a roof also!
We then went for a drive towards the volcano to see some of the areas the landslide destroyed in late 2009.
We first saw an old medical clinic that was ripped apart by the landslide.
Taken through the window of the medical clinic, you can see the dirt path where the landslide began. It tore through this town and many others in the evening on its way out to the ocean over 50 kilometers away.
A trench that was formed through a sugar cane field - not even a stream used to exist at this location. You can see people behind me in the background on the left of the canyon in order to truly grasp the scale of this destruction. (You can click on the photo to make it larger). Where I am standing used to have homes, and many bodies were buried or carried for miles and miles into the ocean and have never been found.
There is a monument in this small town in memory of some of the locals who lost their lives due to this disaster.
We went back to the hotel, where our host Marisol taught us to make pupusas - a traditional food that we made with beans, cheese, and a type of pumpkin stuffed inside a bread that was fried on a grill. They were delicious and fun to make.
