During a recent conference call, TLAU employee Walter Ulloa, or as I call him “Everready,” laid out our options for future projects. They are as follows:

  • Construct a library at the Centro Escolar Monseñor Romero in La Libertad (see previous post).
  • Construct a covered play area at the Centro Escolar Catolico San Andres in Apaneca (Walter’s hometown).
  • Construct two classrooms at the Centro Escolar Catolico Nuestra Señora del Refugio in Ahuachapan (near Walter’s hometown).
  • Construct a computer lab with ten computers at the Centro Escolar Catolico San Patricio (see “completed projects” page on website).

It was such a hard decision, and we wanted to work Walter a little harder, so we decided to to three projects at once! No, really, we are going ahead with three of these four projects, but not because we want to work Walter harder. He already works harder than any hombre I know, and I’m serious when I say this. Visiting El Salvador and living life at Walter’s pace is too much for my bourgeois temperament, and at the end of a day I often find myself cowering in the corner with a bag of mamones. Anyways, two of the projects, the covered play area and the two classrooms, are located in Walter’s department (or county) so he won’t have to travel very far to oversee them. The third project, the library, is located in La Libertad. I can’t remember exactly how far that is from his home, but I’m sure that travel time plus the time needed to oversee the projects in his department won’t amount to anything near some past projects, when he had to drive five hours, both ways, multiple times a week.

So to sum up, we have decided to start

  1. The library
  2. The covered play area
  3. The two classrooms

We decided that the computer lab can wait, even though we had a long discussion about why computers actually are very necessary for a well-rounded education in El Salvador, but not so necessary in America. Maybe I’ll write a post on that sometime. But for now, stay tuned, as I’m sure Walter will be sending more photos and perhaps some estimated budgets. Those are always fun.