Good evening, everybody!Today we had the opportunity to experience plenty of fantastic food AND plenty grueling work. We have arrived at our accommodations for our stay at Habitat for Humanity. It is at a agricultural college about an hour outside of Asuncion which runs a small hotel. The college is beautiful, the food is outstanding and we are treated like royalty. It is a lovely place to walk and run, and we are able to meet our food before it appears on our plates (aka, they raise livestock as well as fruits and vegetables).
At about seven thirty in the morning, we loaded up in a mini van owned by our tour guide, Alveroni. The worksite is about a mile away, situated on a swampish-field-thing. Our group of 24 as well as about 6 masons are working on a 500 square foot house (which is considered rather large). The main job for today was to finish the foundation of the house. We all carried rocks, dug trenches, created huge assembly lines to transport sand to create cement, and got stuck in the mud.
Plenty of delicious food was delivered to us throughout the day. Entertainment was offered by Carl attempting to pet a cow and we were amazed by the exclusiveness exhibited by the male gender as they refused to permit females to work on the septic tank that they were digging. We also collected an audience, which was comprised of a bunch of teenage boys watching us work all afternoon.Our group displayed their excellent Swiss German work ethic throughout the day. Overall, we had a great time doing hard manual labor in the name of Christ.
Katrina and Liz.
Thanks for posting the pix! It helped give me a visual of the swampish-field that you are working in. I couldn't fully appreciate your working conditions until I saw the bare feet & rolled up pant legs! Wow - 500 sq. ft is not very big - we just bought a cabin that is 600 sq ft - and I thought that was small.
ReplyDeleteTell Janelle B I said "hi & I hope you are able to wash all that mud off!"
Blessings as you all serve in the Name of Christ!
~ Wanda H.