Connie in Morocco and Beyond

These are my travel experiences beginning with my Peace Corps service in Morocco from 2006-2008. At the request of friends and my own desire to document, I continued blogging my journeys to other countries as well as in the U. S., including my service as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in South Africa for most of 2014. This blog will continue as my travel journal.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

MEXICO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BUILD - March 2012

View from our building site. Yes, that is volcano steam on the left.
Magnum bars!  First since Morocco!  A hit with everyone. Team leader Steve Dobie is to the left of me.
Parade during our sidewalk lunch in Puebla



The first view of our house that we were to work on.
Moving brick from big pile to rooms in the house
Sifting sand for part of the mortar
Mexican cement mixer
The work team for the house I worked on, plus family and other HFH workers.  My terrific roomie, Jeanne, is on the left side of me.  We got all the walls up, including the reinforced corners.  Still to do by the local affiliate were the doors, windows, roofs, electrical and plumbing, and floor.  Lots of hard work by all involved. 
Great lunches prepared by local women


Pyramid of the Sun - Teotihuacan, toured post-build.  We got lost enroute, so arrived too late to climb it, plus it was quite hot.  Good enough reasons for me!  This shot doesn't show it, but there were hundreds of people on it, plus the yoga folks in the foreground.
This gives a better idea of the steepness of the Pyramid.








Grilled cactus and onions for lunch, anyone?

Sharon & Fred Winslow, who was a co-leader of the build, both retired Methodist ministers and my tour guides after the build.  Here we are at Cholula, 2nd century B. C. largest pyramid by volume in the world, but most of it is hidden by overgrowth.

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