Day One on our build site... no rest for the wicked we arrived yesterday, there are eight Aussies in the group and a very dishy Canadian tour guide. We met the home owners today and were split into our groups to build our houses. Julie and I are with a group of Americans and Canadians. There are 6 of us on woring on the one house and today we were able to dig a hole for the latrine, fill in a hole that was accidently dug in the wrong spot. Level of the floor of the house and fill in the holes with loads of dirt. and then we covered the dirt with crushed rock. And the best part of the day, I became a brickie... Julie and I worked very well as a team and even laid enough bricks that we were on th scafolding by the afternoon. It is quite an accomplishment to see the progress that 6 unskilled people can do in a day, we still have so far to go and I'm not sure we will finish the house by friday, but it is a great chalenge anyway.
And the best thing about this evening is that I'm not even sore, although my back did ache a little in the morning after coming back to the hotel and having an awesome shower, I feel as good as new.
Habitat and their crew are really great, and the skilled worker fir our house was a lovely old man who supervised from his chair as he had fallen off the building and it looked as though he may have had a broken leg. But he was really nice and showed us what to do and then spent most of the afternoon laughing at us, ans I am sure that he understood a bit of english too :) It was quite funny actually, cos to a lot of the others he was quite angry in his tone, but he was really friendly to me, maybe he just knew that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I definately have a great respect for brickies now thats for sure!
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