Why is this taking so long? Well, its the first Indian Soilet and getting materials is not as easy as running over to Home Depot. So the three barriers today were: (1)The worms at the vermi-culture place will have to wait one more day. (2) We didn't decide we wanted to hire a mason for the bathroom wall until 1:30 pm. The mason agreed to do a half days of labor, but apparently starting at one 1:30 is too late for a half day of labor???? so he will be there tomorrow morning. Before I explain the third daily barrier, let me orient you. The wall is on the north side of the Soilet. Before building, we informed the lady of the household that we would be having steps leading up to a door to the bathroom on the south side of the toilet. Well, today she told us that (based on superstitious belief), the door needs to be on the east side of the toilet. That, as you can see, is the side that at this moment drops right down into the hole in the box. We will of course cover this with a lid, but it will in no way be weight bearing. We let her know that she can have the door on the south side opposite of the wall or even on the west side facing the road, but there is no way we can do the door on the east side. But she wasn't satisfied. So we're leaving it up to a lady in our partner NGO to talk her through on this one. If she doesn't budge, I'll have to be creative in making a bathroom wall that just doesn't have a door, like a mini tent with a curtain all around....
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