The second team is great! much different than they first (two boys and 10 girls). They work really hard and it's looking to be a fun week. Later gator!
Monday, July 5, 2010
Second Verse, Same as the First:
First day of construction! I feel so hardcore (just kidding, as i was failing to move a wheelbarrow full of rocks, I could tell the workers were thinking, dumb girl, haha). I feel it already in my arms and back. The construction SIFAT is doing is on a Church/daycare in the middle of town(ish) It is a one room church with a kitchen and they want to turn it into a daycare also for kids ages whatever to stay while they are at work or after school. The first team put up like 17? columns last week on the second floor and this week we are going to finish them up. Just in case you were curious they mix the cement by hand (or shovel) It basically involves moving around wheelbarrows of rocks, dirt, dry cement and water until it is all one consistency. It makes you appreciate a cement truck.
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Reminds me of cement mixing in Bolivia. I never actually experienced it but I have pictures of others mixing with a shovel in a hole in the ground. It was pretty tricky getting it up to the second floor. Is next week VBS?
ReplyDeletehaha, my back kills! & yeah they move the ingredients to the 2nd floor with buckets. it takes forever. Nope one more week of construction and then i go back to VBS
ReplyDeleteI so feel your pain! We (I mean the boys) mixed cement when we moved the park around for the group project. I made sure they stayed hydrated because they made fun of me trying to shovel-stir the mixture together.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're doing well! Keep posting!!
Bethany
Bethany! I just noticed this! haha, it made me happy, sorry for the delayed response
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