November 6, 2009
Just a comment on how you should read the organ series of post. I think it makes the most sence to read these next 11 or so post in chronological order (or the order in which I wrote them) and they aren’t all that long so go ahead and check out the whole story.
Peter

After one month of waiting for our container to arrive in Santa Cruz, over 600 phone calls, 2,500 emails and to many cups of coffee I was following our Blue Sky container into Guaracachi, the train station’s freight yard. Even that day it had gotten atrasado or delayed in customs once again, the electricity had gone out that afternoon so they could not print the last document that they needed to sign . They ended up sitting in the dark for two and a half hours until the lights came back on, things got signed and the truck left with the container only to arrive in Guaracachi 30 minutes after the train left for Roboré. Of course there were still more problems we would have to get over, but the organ was in Santa Cruz and out of customs.
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November 5, 2009

Susi Tattershall, Amado Cadena and I started each day at 6:30 and ended around 10:00 or so. We were doing the work that was to be don in ten days in about 4. So of course we had to put in long hours. One of the orchestra kids later asked me “you been working a lot?”, “sure have” I said, “you been working like Americans” he joked. All of this commotion caused a lot of kids to spend a good chunk of there recreo or passing periods looking in the windows of the church as we worked. Also whenever we needed help all I had to do was walk out in the plaza and sure enough there were people standing around outside the church and they would come in and help lift things. When we needed to get the bellows up on the frame it was just as class was getting out so a whole bunch of 8th graders we standing around watching I hollered at them and they all assisted with the heavy lifting.
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November 5, 2009

The Barckhoff sounded grand, and in the space any Earlham Alumn (there were three of us their) can tell you it really sound better in the Santiago church then in the Hancock room. Susi did a great job, the orchestras, Kristen and Antoine also did a great job playing with the soloist Stephen Roberts. The whole town, all of its authorities, the neighboring authorities and invited folks enjoyed spectacular show.
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November 4, 2009

The next day was the shindig (there had been one the night before as well). But that is what you do in Bolivia for an big event it needs its big meal. Here is one of the mothers of the orchestra fixing up some good fixins. The whole town was invited.
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