Juan Gavilanes The Saga Begins

Date : April 12, 2007
Time: 8:58 pm Ecuadorian Time
Place: Cochancay, Ecuador

I apologize to all my fans who read my blogs that I wasn´t able to come up with anything new for the past couple of days. Let´s get started with what I had to go through with these days. First off lets start with arriving to the airport. When I arrived at the airport I thought that I would get home soon so I can go to sleep right?.... wrong. I spent most of my day dealing with Ecuador custom agents. It was a painstaking 4 hours where I had to speak with them and tell them the purpose of my trip. Unfortunately in order for them to release me and leave me alone I ha to bribe them. Ecuafor is a wonderful place but the only bad thing it has is lot of corruption. Instead of letting me go they decided beacuase I was ecuadorian american they could get some money of me. I know if I let them get away with it it would be wrong but I knew if I kept arguing with them that I would spend all day so I just decided to go with it.I spotted the officer 40 dollars and he let me go. The next step was to go to sleep as soon as possible so I can wake up early tommorow morning to get ready for work on my house. And so I did.
When I arrived to the construction site I realized there had to be much work to be done.I knew I needed to buy material for the house and that what I did. I got in my pickup and made a 20 minute trip to LA TRONCAL which is a small town south of Cochancay. I arrived and to my dismay I realized I didn´t carry that much money on me so I decided to call my dad to help me with some of the payments I had to make. He fortunately was able to help me pay half of the expenses. As I got the site I noticed that my house was yet done to my stisfaction and still needed alot of work. So I decided to gather every worker I had for a small meeting and tell them exactly what I wanted to see for the next 15 days I was going to be here.They soon left what they were doing and approached me. I spoke with them and told me the specific time period my needs were going to be reached. I then spoke about payroll and how I was going to pay them.Considering I was really tight on money I told them they would have to wait till the end of the month for their salary. They didn´t like that very muvh but oh well thats life.Either was I knew I had to be rigid and aggresive with my workers or else nothing would be done .