One of the most striking features of the people here in Bluefields and in the communities that we serve is the brute physical strength they all have. Logically thinking, it makes sense that people that live by producing things with their hands turn out to be really strong, but logically thinking about it, and actually experiencing it are totally different things.
The other interesting bit is that the men here, although ridiculously strong, don’t look it the way big gym-buffs from the States do. Their muscles are flat, but 1000 times more functional than all my big body-builder guy friends put together.
During the construction of the office, there were a few times when desks or ladders to stand on were in high demand – but this never stopped anyone. At one point, Ronald, the boss man of the bE workers at the workshop, wanted to check out what was going on above the ceiling, so he does a little jump, grabs one of the ceiling beams, proceeds to do a pull up until he head is well above the “bar” and then looks around for what felt like eternity, yelling instructions to people, using one hand to point at random things, and just kind of chilling. Another time he climbed up the side of the wall outside to check on the status of the security grates. We managed to get a picture of that one before it was over.
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