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Salko and volunteer Maya outside of Ravne tunnel labyrinth |
Visoko, Bosnia
Friday, August 19, 2011
Salko is perhaps 80 years old, short, bent, and strong. Some time in the distant past he agreed to pull ancient carts full of rubble a third of a kilometer through the Ravne tunnel labyrinth, up a significant outdoor incline, and across a road to be dumped. On my first day in Ravne, I was shoveling at the head of the tunnel, far into the earth. There is room for only one shoveler here, and Salko waited patiently while I filled the first cart of the day, around 9:30 a.m. I was singing, and Salko said something in Bosnian to his cart-pusher, Maja, a lanky young bilingual woman approximately a third taller and several times younger than her wizened associate. Maya said, "Salko just said, 'Let's see if he's still singing at 3 o'clock.'" . . . Of course, I was. :)
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Salko and volunteer Kayleigh outside of Ravne tunnel labyrinth |
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Salko and volunteer Kayleigh outside of Ravne tunnel labyrinth |
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Salko and volunteer Kayleigh outside of Ravne tunnel labyrinth |
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Salko and volunteer Kayleigh outside of Ravne tunnel labyrinth |
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