We're exhausted after a long day in the sun, but VBS at Batey Bermejo was a successful adventure! The construction site? Perhaps a bit less so. We succeeded in tying some steel rebar to prepare for concrete pouring, but a piece of equipment (a special circular saw for cutting thicker pieces of rebar) failed and had to be taken back to the equipment rental place to be replaced... which in turn held up the rest of the work. Still, some of us got to do some helping break up rock in the foundation area with pickaxes. When we arrived at Batey Bermejo, it was after a bus ride through countless sugarcane fields, stretching as far as the eye could see. The village nearby is little more than a few buildings and ramshackle huts, but the batey itself is even more basic in terms of accomodations, sanitation, technology. They did however have a decently loud PA speaker connected to a portable gas generator (which was also charging a number of cell phones at any given time). That amplification
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