Getting to Work and Scaling Walls

Now I understand why nothing gets done in this county. It is because it is so hard to do the basics. We came home last night and again, gates were closed so this time I actually had to scale a 12-ft wall to get back in. This time we took the souvenir stand's stool to use as a ladder to scale a smaller wall and then my roomate had to push me up until I could get a foothold. Then, I didn't have the strength on my own to get over the top, so she just kept pushing my butt and hips until I finally and clumsily climbed over. Who knew I would need rock climbing skills on this trip?

Afterwards, we served dinner at our house for 12 with about 5 dishes, 12 utensils and one pot. People had to eat food out of their hands almost since we didn't have enough service. We also served a little beer and whisky so no one noticed that they had lentil soup (DAAL) dripping down their shirts.

Today we actually started doing what we came here to do - collecting, sorting and nipping tiles and designing what we are going to place. We decided we are going to do a series of columns on a building that is just missing designs on its column and exterior face and then it will be finished. So today we started testing our theories. None of us has done mosaics on rounded columns before.

There is a landfill of tiles - mostly household bathroom and kitchen tile shards, that seem to be dumped by trucks in piles over more than an acre of the park. We just go there to find what we want, but it involves going through piles, bagging them and then sorting and nipping them.