Tuesday July 31st: Build Day 2

Everyone seemed to have slept well and our second day was also a successful one.  We have a busy work schedule and tasks continue to range from demolition to digging trenches to getting floors ready for cement being poured, assembling wooden casings for the cement to be poured into (forgot the real word for it) and getting materials from the store such as gravel and sand which has to be shoveled into our Habitat truck, then driven to the work site, and brought into the yard via wheelbarrows. All of our demolition garbage was on the sidewalk and the municipality sent a big container today that we could load all the garbage into, so it was wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of broken bricks, glass, dirt, wood etc to move the stuff from the front of the house to the container. Took a looong time.

Meals are great here, fruit tastes delicious and consists of apples, oranges, bananas, kiwi and then we also eat yummy tomatoes, avocados etc. Tea is a comfort drink here and is served often.  We all got the kiss on the cheek by the Mom on our site (site 3) and felt very welcome on our second day...the other sites felt the same. Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves, and are bonding with the families and kids on site.

Ivan, our Habitat person here, joined us for dinner and we got a promise of going salsa dancing on Thursday night. Should be fun.