Shelf Assemblage for Dummies in Lima

How to make a shelf for your classroom in America:
1.) Get in car
2.) Drive to Ace Hardware
3.) Have boards cut for you
4.) Put boards in car
5.) Drive to school
6.) Assemble shelf




















How to make a shelf for your classroom in Lima:
1.) Walk to bus stop
2.) Get hit on while walking to the bus stop
3.) Flag down a combi (van-bus thing)
4.) Get hit on while flagging down a combi
5.) Tell the combi man you want to be let off at Ace Hardware
6.) Get hit on by the combi man (who has serious billy bob teeth)
7.) Enter Ace Hardware
8.) Get hit on while entering Ace Hardware
9.) Have boards cut for you with painstaking precision
10.) Get treated exceptionally well throughout the whole process
11.) Leave Ace Hardware and barter for a taxi to put yourself and the cut boards in
12.) Arrive at school and let taxi driver carry boards inside for you
13.) Begin assembling shelf only to realize the school's electric screwdriver has gone missing
14.) Let one of the carpenters (who happens to be working in the school this Saturday) assemble the entire shelf for you in 5 seconds (Just when I think I have lost my faith in ever developing a positive view of Peruvian men, one will do something completely unselfish and self-sacrificing for me).








You can see that my classroom has changed since I last showed it to you.
New features include:
1 shelf
1 plant
1 drying rack
40 books
50 pieces of student artwork on display (some visible in hallway)
1 snail friend attached to the window next to my desk