Blood, sweat, and tears...but it's all worth it in the end. :)

As I said, this week we are attending the only stone carving school in the country, learning the skills of the original stone masons. It's awesome to learn from them...but extremely painful! between blisters, cuts, sweating constantly, and chips of limestone flying, we all have had our moments.

But yesterday made it all worthwhile. We are now starting to build a dry masonry wall for an old stone mason...he's kind of too old to do it himself. ;)
We drive out to his olive tree farm...and hike out to one of his farm walls that has fallen down. With his Croatian guidance (thanks to a translator) we are able to move slowly along!
It's so FUN and it's such a blessing to be able to serve the locals. He said it will keep people from coming and taking his olives that he makes into olive oil!! WHICH I WANT TO BUY!! ;)

Other than that, we walk and draw during our free time, try to figure out how the work here is going to relate to our work on Drvenik Veli...which is unclear at the time. So I will update as that comes up!! :D