The next day he put his plan into action. He called his neighbours together, young and old, and explained it to them. In detail. They looked at him with surprise and pity. They did not believe their ears. “What’s up with the teacher? The calamity has affected his brain… or the joy at seeing his granddaughter.” One by one they left him and returned to their tents. But once he had decided something he did not give up. He started on his own. He took two buckets and tied them to the ends of a pipe, fixed a piece of thick cloth on his shoulders to take the weight, and began to dig and carry earth from the state land of the surrounding area. From the neighbouring fields, which they had asked to settle on but which the government had not given them as it had other plans. He filled the bucket to t
