A few shots (not in chronological order) from the first five months, from building the house to visitors arriving
Carrying zinc sheets for the house
Finished house and garden and hammock
Chaco. Abuelo's dog and regular guest at my house
Home for my first three months
Approaching the summit of Cerro Patena for New Years
View from the camino up to Cerro Patena
Many volunteers gathered on top of Cerro Patena New Years day
Bumping nightlife in Cerro Pita
Mina looking through a National Geographic with Edjo and Noidgi
Stars and headlamps every night
Making the most of the porch space
Psyched to have a guest
Mina working on the mural she painted in my house
Carrying wood for the house
Making the bed of the house on a rainy day
My host brother and pal
House construction
Day trip
Resting at the river
Harvesting mushrooms
First sight of the cordillera
Approaching Koroso
Cerro Pita is the hill in the center of the photo
Breath holding competitions in the river
Bed construction
Finished house
Interior post construction
host siblings
The first sprouts of the garden
Host siblings
enjoying the transparent zinc
abuelo checking out my paper of yoga poses
my roommates in my host families house
host siblings one one the first few afternoons in site
gringo fascination still in full swing
Onorio resting
the tree of chickens, ready to harvest
rice preparation
chopping down a tree for the house
noidgi
Onorio
the endless gaze of children
fun with gel
kitchen
post storm
outside of my host families house
cleaning the patch of land for the house
soccer
Cerro Pita's soccer field
Cerro Pita's traveling band
Wood gathered
Rigo
gathering firewood
y pa mi?
noidgi cooking rice
Norma with her chichi and rice drying in the background
