Mollie's Day
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| Boths groups heading out for their first day of work. |
Today, we started our work on the Habitat work sites. My group is Olivia, Lauren, Pat, Parker, Ms. Chehak, and Colin 2. The other group is Abby, Wiam, Jack, Daivs, Ms. Yen, and OC (Old Colin). [Ed note: We had two Habitat leaders, one for each site. The "new Colin" joined us once we got to Salama.] When we arrived at our site, we were told to move cinder blocks.
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| The state of the house when we arrived. We love cinder blocks! |
An hour and a half later, we were still moving them.
After we finished, we all did different tasks that the mason told us to do. Throughout our building, we took water breaks every thirty minutes and continuously practiced our Spanish while talking to the four other builders and the family for whom we were building.
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| The chicken coop at the back is a women's collective. |
We learned a lot about Ruby and Luis's family, saw the chicken coop that 375 chickens in it, and I even got a mini-tour of Ruby's parents' house. At around twelve, our lunch was delivered and we were able to relax for a little while. We finished our long day at three o'clock and we got on the bus to share the day's memories with the other group. It was a relaxing evening because everyone felt extremely sore, tired, sun burnt from today. The girls were able to lift their heads from their pillows for thirty minutes to go buy some chips from the supermarket next door. Tonight, we ate an early dinner and then played another intense game of charades--the boys won, but the girls will get them back tomorrow. Eya!
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