The roadwork continues. They have scraped off the old asphalt, and are now in the process of digging ditches and laying new lines on the sides of the road.
Here a crew continues to hand-dig a trench in which a new phone line is being installed--it is being buried so that it will not be effected during the next typhoon.
I spoke to the men hand-digging the trench, and admiring their work. They were actually smiling as they worked! They said they were happy because they had work--I can understand that completely.
Jim Bell, the famous swimmer is now on the island and ready to start swimming around the island. He will be staying at the Sai-Plaza apartment while he is on island. He will be swimming to Tinian from Saipan on Saturday, then began swimming around the island.
I also discovered a mistake I had made in a previous blog--I had noted the closure of the clothing store Roshi's that was by the baseball field. I did not know it hadn't closed, it had just moved! It had moved to this same plaza. That is good to know!
The concrete is finally being poured on the amphitheater
Concrete trucks are lined-up to deliver the concrete, and two cranes with two large buckets are in full use transferring the concrete from the trucks to the roof.
There is a large crew hard at work making sure the concrete is installed in one continuous pour, and, hopefully, before the rain hits again.
While everyone else is working hard...there are some making better use of their time!
The local amphitheater being built is finally getting the concrete roof poured. It is a scary time to do this as it is the rainy season. Having been in construction all of my life--as a roofer--I understand the problems these workers have. If it happens to rain (especially the downpours we get here) during the time they are actually pouring concrete, it will be a disaster! But when I visited the site, they were about 1/2 done, and although the weather was threatening, it looked as though they might make it before it rains again.
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