Day 22, March 10

Well after a long and interesting train ride from Hyderabad the B-team has arrived in Ongole. that's me Mike. First off I want to say thanks to the A-team, Kim and Deepa, for all their hard work and congradulate them on a job well done, well at least partially done that's where I come in. I got into town early yesterday morning got my hotel room and found my driver, but not before I took an unexpected detour by getting off at the wrong train stop (something I had been warned about repeatedly but still manged to do!). None the less after figuring out where I was I met some very friendly folks in the train station and enjoyed a short comuter train ride to Ongole. Once in town I had the driver take me staight out to the village to see the site for myself. Things looked much as I expected from Kim and Deepa's report. Only work that could be done at this time was backfilling the outflow pipes which I began and villagers picked up on and finished up. Unfortunately I think they were very interested to know when the roof work would start which I was not able to comunicate to them since there was no interpeter and I actually didn't know since I had not met the builder yet. I know this was a great concern to them we even took some villagers back into the closest larger community to find an english speaker but I am sure the message never got through. At this point I was exhuasted after a long night of travel and then a hot moring of work on the project, so I asked the driver to take me back to Ongole, but not before he insisted on making another stop at a local mission where the pastor was a good english interpeter. I had a nice lunch with him and was able to clear some things up with the car service. Finally back at my hotel I met with the builder and agreed to the quantities he needed to get to finish the structure. He said it will take him 2 days to gather material and will start work on the roof on the third day. Which will give me a couple of days to recover from today, boy do I need it!