Tuesday March 2, 2010

Whew! Another day hard at work at the Habitat house for Tracy, Fred and Paula. Christina the Peace Corps volunteer accompanied us to help with the language barrier. Paula and Christina started the day bending and cutting wire to tie the re-bar and Tracy and Fred were given a large pile of big rocks to break into small rocks. The tools given were small mallets ... later Christina and Paula joined in with a large sledge hammer. It took all of us all day to get this task accomplished. We sure could have used a jack hammer.

Alvira and Jose were working along side us all day. Christina commented that it was unusual to see a Guatemalan women working so hard at such hard physical labor. Alvira must be very exceited to get into her new home.

All of the block walls were pretty much completed by the end of the day. Eleazar (the Habitat Representative) thinks that they will be ready to put the roof on Thursday or Friday. That will be exciting and rewarding to see!

Val accompanied the group from Bay Pres to the school located at San Marcos. There they retrofitted a three year old Livinng Water ozone system. Three valves needed to be replaced which ended up requiring the dis-assembling of the system and included an audience of hundreds (?) of precious Guatemalan children. When they were finished the system was back up and running and the children had a good fill of "Gringo" entertainment.