First day of work

Yesterday we were awakened by the sound of a rooster crowing, very early. Our work day started off at 10 or 10:30 a.m. We traveled to San George, a small town lying just outside of Pana on Lake Atitlan, to install our first 4 stoves. For the first 3 we had to park near the community wash(laundry) area and carry every thing up narrow paths to the homes where the stoves would be installed. In this task there wasn´t to many things I could help carry because the concrete parts of the stove were much to heavy for me. They seemed heavy for the men who were working with us. Daniel played with the children while we worked. He seemed right at home in the areas we were in.
For the first stove the men from Mayan Families showed us how it needed to be put together and then for the second one we all worked together to install it. The stoves seem to go together quickly. We had installed 3 stoves by 1:30 p.m. At that time we stopped to have lunch.
I forgot to mention there were also two gentlemen working with us, who had come to Pana for the same reason to work with Mayan Families, one from Canada and the other was Czech. The one from Czech. spoke spanish and many other languages.
After lunch we walked to the house where the 4th and last stove for the day was to be installed. The kitchen area was very small and I helped Carlos, from Mayan Families with wire screen/protector to shape it like a tube to place over the stove pipe, so as to provide protection, if touched from the hot pipe. We also worked to put the top on the part of the pipe that would be on the outside.
After our work was finished they took us to see Tierra Linda, another small town, where Mayan Families provides sponsorship to many students to go to the school there. They have also done much work to the school by adding rooms and repairing the roof. Here in Tierra Linda they are working on the construction of a community center also. It is partially complete and we were able to see the work that has been done. From there we returned to Pana and our hotel.
Today we will be working in Pana to install the last 3 stoves.
I have taken several pictures and being the photographer for most of our day, I´m not in many of them. One of the workers did use my camera to take pictures of us with the families and there newly installed stoves at all but one of the homes.