So we live in a brand new building on a complex that so far includes one giant square courtyard along the length of our building and a renovated girls school down another side (photos when Stephan gives my camera back). We think that another building similar to ours will be going in across the courtyard from us, but we also think this will probably be long after we’re gone.
This is because I work from home and so accidentally monitor the construction crew still working on the site. On any give day, there are between 3 and 8 workers who seem to do a lot of standing around or sitting idly in backhoes that aren’t moving during the approximately 4 hours they’re actually onsite. I don’t know anything about construction, but 3 weeks to pave along one side of a courtyard doesn’t seem very efficient.
Today the eight of them set something on fire and watched it burn. Many of them were wearing shorts, surprising in a country that requires 4 days of training to drive a forklift.
