getting our feet wet

I'm writing from a temporary bamboo hut on the building site of the future Garo Hills Adventist Boarding School. Internet is delivered via satelite but it's been touchy because of atmospheric disturbance. The rain clouds are laying low over the hills and it has been pouring rain since we arrived yesterday around noon. We asked how long it would rain and they replied two more months. This is really complicating construction but the crews are still out there shoveling gravel into baskets and then carrying them on their heads to the place where concrete is being prepared or pounding boards into forms. Yesterday they tried pouring the second floor of one building but had to stop when the rain got to heavy. Monsoon is really putting a cramp in this construction project. We don't know where we are staying yet but we hope to find out before evening. Yesterday we had to sit all day while people fed us but the camera crew has just arrived and there are promised of hiking up the hill to get some good shots of the campus. I'm looking forward to that.