Luke again.....

Hey everybody its luke again!  Obviously im the only person here that will blog by the looks of it.  So today started out bright and early for me, Jeff, Justin, Nate, Matea and Daniel.  We got up at 5 15 to haul a load of bricks to some place over in Cap.  We had loaded them all up the night before, we guessed it to be about 250 of them.  It took us about an hour to get there hanging our legs off the back end of this flat bed truck cruizin down these awful doars with puddles and ruts about 2 feet deep!  After we had unloaded the bricks at our destination, we headed back to COTP.  When we got back, we headed up to the ciddadel for the day.  the ciddadel is an old castle built on top of a mountain that was built 200 years ago to protect Haiti from the French.  From the top you could even see the boarder to the Dominican Republic.  It was amazing!!!  Except for the hike up there,  really really really long and steep hike!  The people at the bottom would follow you up the whole way and give you information about it and then try to get money from you at the bottom.  The guy that followed me seemed so nice until i told him that i had no money with me, he kind of ignored me from there on out....  After our visit to the cidadel was done, we returned back to COTP to do work for the day.  We got back at about 1, and big nick asked me if i knew how to run a tractor.  I said yeah, and he told me to go out with a guy standing outside the gate that he had never even meet before and we would go get bamboo out back.  Turns out that "outback" is about a half a mile across a pasture, crossing about 3 rivers, and i managed to find a lot of mud!  It was a pretty small tractor with a front end loader on it.  I got it stuck crossing a river in a couple feet of water.   I used the loader on the front to crawl my way out, and just as i was about out, the other man with me, who did not know a word of english, thought he could do it.  So he kicked me out of the seat and said he would do it.  I know for a fact that this person had never driven a tractor before and he got it burried!!  It took us about 2 hours to get it back out.  I was starting to get a little sketched out, cuz we were like half a mile away from the compound in a random pasture with bulls wandering around  and this random man that no one here even knew had a machette.   Its kind of funny now though i guess.   So basically i wasnt around much today, everybody was kind of wondering where i went to haha.  But while i was gone it looks like the rest of the guys got a lot down on the bamboo fence we are going to build tommorow!  They got all the post holes dug and they got the whole area leveled out and ready to be fenced in!  We will let you know how that goes!  Everybody take care!  See you in a couple of days!