Last night wasn’t so good. I’m not sure why, but I had a faint stomachache when I went to bed. I thought it was just gas, but about 3 hours later I had to make a run for the toilet to ride the number two train to Brown Town for about 30 minutes. Once my stomach felt fairly stable I went back to bed. I woke up with a little remnant of the stomach pain, but no sign of the “train”. This made the morning very bad. I didn’t have an appetite for breakfast so I didn’t eat much and then that lead to me feeling weak on the job while I was relocating the water pipe under the house.

After lunch I took a quick nap and then reluctantly headed back across the river. I had just finished gluing all the PVC together just as it started to rain. We scrambled to get all the tools in and electronics covered up. There wasn’t any part of the roof done and the tarps we had up were gathering water and then dumping inside the house. We got one smaller tarp on the roof so it would shed water outside the house and that made it better in that one section. Of course, soon after we got the tarp situated, it stopped raining. The owner of the house was very upset and frustrated that so much of his electronic equipment had gotten wet. Sandy and Larry got on the roof and started putting the Metalplas down to assuage his frustration. I helped him clean up the wet stuff then jumped back and forth getting stuff for Andy/Sam, and Larry/Sandy.

Around 4:30 pm it started to sprinkle again, so I got on the roof with the last tarp we had and started spreading it out just as it started to downpour. Andy and Sam came over and helped and in about 45 minutes we had it all situated. It was pretty surprising that it was so pleasant to work in a downpour like that. Walking back to the house it rained even harder. We were all in good spirits by then and I was feeling much better after having my stomach back to normal and being cooled off by the heavy rain.

Back at the house, one of the missionaries was bathing under the water falling off his roof. Since I was already soaked from the downpour, I did the same and soaped up while the Palawano kids watched with curiosity. For dinner we had sweet and sour pork, garlic rice, cabbage in some sort of soy sauce, and bread. It was the best meal yet. Probably mostly because we had worked hard and I hadn’t been feeling well all day. We were short-handed today because the village water pump broke, so some of the guys went over to fix it and it took them the whole day. They were Gerry, Jim, Ed, Carol, and one of the missionaries. If we would have had them on the roof today, we may have been able to get a whole section done. Oh well, the villagers need water so that became a priority. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to take any pictures today.