During my days living at the hotel Roger used to come to pick me up in his orange truck every morning. Then we would travel over to Huacariz to talk to Malaneo and the workers, then go off to buy supplies or do some other talk so we could get indoors before the rain began in the early afternoon. The process of ploughing and planting was done in a very ad hoc and informal way. We bought supplies at local hardware and agrultural stores. We always got receipts for what we bought but they were never filed away, I didn´t even have a file to keep them in. I just looked at them and then tossed them away.

We didn´t even have an office to work in. I was living in hostal rooms. Roger was living in his dad´s large house, when we had some paperwork to do we would just set up a computer on the large living room table, spread some paperwork around and use that as our office. Roger produced some spreadsheets of the costs involved to set up the project. We also used translation software to communicate with each other sometimes. It helped us that Roger´s father was often away in Lima and the house was empty most of the time apart from Roger and the housekeeper.

Although we had a very good friendship and a great rapport together, Roger´s English was not good. He had forgotten a lot I think because he used to speak very well. And I was still trying to pick up Spanish at that time so we had a few communicacion problems. The transation programme helped me to understand better some of the details. However, within a few months we didn´t need the translation program as we could hold all our conversations in Spanish and now I speak Spanish to a pretty good level.