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Snack Time
In the western highlands of Guatemala, everything seems to come to a halt around 10am. That's because it's snack time. The little boy seated to the right of Don Milo is his son. Everyday he brings his father snack and lunch(1pm). In this photo, he's drinking a home made rice milk out of an old plastic bottle.
Anything Is Possible
During construction, we saved an estimated 800 quetzales(100$) by not having to buy expensive elbow connectors. Instead, we used man's oldest magic and bent the pipe using fire. In this video, you can see how we were able to bend the pipe up to about a ninety-degree angle with only using some fire and water. Two men would hold the pipe on either end while Don Milo would move the tubing over the fire. After about a minute of softening the tube, the two men, on other side of the six meter tube, would pull the tubing in opposite directions. This would cause the tube to become weak and malleable. Enough so, that Don Milo could slowly bend the tube ever so slightly. This process would be repeated until the tube was at a desired shape and angle. The Tube in the video has about 17 small bends in it. Before beginning the process, I was the most skeptical of all. Each one of these tubes cost 230q and even the smallest mistake in the melting/bending process would be, to say the least, a cos...
