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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

My water carring experience

            I go an visit my kiva loan person time to time. I just went to visit her 9 days ago. It was really hard she showed and explaind to me how the woman go and get water I went to go see what they have to go through just to get water for a day. We woke up early and we went outside and I saw all the woman coming out of their houses with gaint 5, 10 gallons worth of water bottles that they were going to fill up. Estrella and I started are long walk to the water. We ran into a kid my age taking care of his fathers farm, and he lost one of his water buffalo. We helped him find it and he walked with us for a little. Estrella had to translate a lot of what he was saying. He was saying that he might expect some rain. he had to go back to his father to tell him the good news. We have been walking for about two hours. As we talked about how her business has been doing we found that we were there at the water hole. It took us time and concentration to fill up the 5 gallons. It was starting to get dark but it was still dusk. I found it a little scary. I had to take a break every 10 minutes I was really impressed how fast she was walking. I saw clouds starting to come over us It got could than it started to sprinkle than pored. I felt the sore pain eking in my shoulders the mud in my toes. When we got to her home I felt like there wasn't any gravity. I thought to myself when was the last time Ive every done anything like that before.

8 comments:

Andrew said...

I like how you said about the time it took you to gather the water and how the walk was really long

Ryan Mc said...

First of all what I really want to say; what really caught my attention is the description.... I felt the sore pain eking in my shoulders the mud in my toes. That really painted a detailed picture in my head.

Overall I think that your blog is very good, and I really think that its cool how you visited a foreign country.

Deryn said...

Nice Job! I like how you made your water experience with Estrella from your Kiva loan. I liked the way you described your walk and your feelings. Deryn

Dia Rabin said...

Wow Kaleb! Great job! I loved how you were scared because it was getting dark! I felt like i was there with you!

Gretchen N. said...

It was really cool how you said you visited your person from time to time because that is a good excuse to go on a world journey for the reader to believe more.

Lylah E. said...

Hey Kaleb
I really like that you ran into a boy your age who was taking care of his fathers farm because it showed that even kids our age are doing jobs that we couldn't even imagine doing.
Lylah

Ryan! said...

I like how your pics wrap around your text and also it felt like I was there when I was reading yours.
GOOD JOB!!!!!! ;)

John SB said...

Getting water with Estrella...great choice of photos...helping the boy with his buffalo...conversation with Estrella...long walk...rainstorm...feeling like there was no gravity....

Great, great blog, Kaleb. I am so glad you went the extra mile and visited Estrella for your water gathering. I love how your pictures add so much.