Today we spent the morning and afternoon finding sewing machines for our new Sewing School in Carmen Bajo.
If I was in the States I would have had the help of Google or the Yellow Pages. In Ecuador we do things a little different. I had checked out the pricing at a couple places a few months ago, so we started off there. While en route we wound up stopping the car on the side of a highway 3 different times to check out sewing machines we saw in store windows. We also took the advice of tailors and security gurads as they pointed us in the direction of sewing machine distributors.
Information can be unreliable in Ecuador, especially when someone is trying to sell you something. So we wrote down every salesperson's opinion and pricing, and sat down over lunch to come up with a game plan. (Making gameplans while eating shrimp always calms down a Sewing Machine Hunt.)
We're gonna sleep on it and spend some time in prayer and consult some friends in the business, but I think tomorrow we will be ready to buy the sewing machines. Sewing School Phase One: mission almost accomplished.
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