6.28 – brick by brick…

I was able to work with the construction team today… We moved a lot of bricks stacks of cinderblocks to a bunch of different houses in one of the colonies so that they can use them to build their bathrooms. We worked from about 8:30 until about two.




On the way home, we visited the local “snake charmer” that lived in that colony. He has drank increasingly larger and larger amounts of venom from different snakes to give himself an immunity to snakes such as cobras and different vipers! He had a viper just sitting in a potato sack when we got there and just reached in and pulled him out!! He layed him on the ground in front of all of us (he was about four feet away) and then layed a metal bar on the end of his tail. For about ten minutes we watched as he poked and prodded at the snake making him really mad…His body got bigger and bigger as he hissed louder and louder. He did this so that the venom would build up in his mouth. He then picked the snake up and “milked” it by squeezing the venom out of his fangs by pushing his head on the edge of a cup. This “snake charmer” has built up an immunity to different snake venoms by doing this… milking the snakes and drinking diluted snake venom! Yikes!!









My afternoon with the kids has been the same as the past week and a half and still so much fun… Anitha, Maryambee, and about ten other girls and chased each other and just ran around for an hour and a half for free time… somehow I was always "it"?! Haha :) Just another good and rewarding day!