We certainly earned our meals today. Yesterday the work was completed on the foundation, so today we finished leveling the dirt and poured the concrete floor.
Mixing and moving the concrete was an adventure. We carried water in buckets from a nearby storage tank to mix the concrete. Without the benefit of a power mixer, all mixing is done by hand. Then all of the concrete is carried in buckets by old guys like us. It felt like we were paving I-95 one bucket at a time! At first progress was slow, but as we all got in the swing of things, the pace picked up. Eight hours, a ton of sand, and a truckload of concrete mix later we managed to finish the floor.
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| Dieufue, the "foreman" |
We finished off the day with an incredible storm that dumped an unbelievable amount of rain in a very short time. On the up side, it cleaned a lot of the trash out of the streets. Plus, the kids at the orphanage enjoyed the makeshift swimming pool that formed in the parking area.
Tomorrow we will begin building the walls. We still have hopes of getting close to finishing before we leave, but we will see.
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