Quick update today

Today was nuts: the first day of a new type of build. The build was  playground, about and hour-and-a-half trawler ride down the river, or about a 30 minute bus ride. We took the trawler there with our enormous load of lumber; the lumber took an hour and a half to load, starting at 7:30 AM. The boat we’d hired was overloaded, and we actually needed to call up a second trawler. Note: that’s a lot of lumber. We got to the riverside near the build site around 10 AM, and then spent 2+ hours hauling huge heavy boards through the forest. Ouch. The rest of the day was spent digging the pits in which the playground’s main structural beams will sit – a hot gruelling afternoon. Of particular note: huge crowds of kids. We had no less than a hundred around us all day.

One other quick note: Bangladesh has my new record for enormous spiders. Absolutely gigantic, and fast, and (apparently) harmless. Yay!