White Men Don't Work

Here they are, pouring the cement by hand with these little disks.

Everyone said later, that Mike took the hardest job, other then the guy shoveling the cement. They were very impressed.

The other day our friend Anup was having the concrete roof for his house poured. The way that is done here, is that you get everyone you know to help, because it has to be done in one day, so that it doesnt dry. So, Mike went to help out and everyone was very very impressed. Because India was colonized by the British, it was always that the "white man" would hire someone else to do the dirty work. So if anyone ever sees a white person doing any kind of manual labor they are floored. Mike was there in the midst of them all and everyone wanted to see. Saroja said that the neighbors were all coming by to watch. I imagine he made a big impact on a lot of people, and Anup is still saying the people are making comments to him about how great it was that his foreigner friend did that.