Monday, June 9, 2008

Rosa, the mother of the three children, and their new home. They are such a wonderful family and it was such a blessing to get to know and help them.
Rosa's three kids, named Gual, Selvi and Iris.
Ki, me and the kids showing our green hands after painting the inside of their new house.
Everyday to and from the job site we rode in the back of trucks. This is us so happy to be headed back after a hard day working.
This is another very lovely picture of us. Here we are waiting for the trucks to come pick us up to take us back to Antigua.

Mom, Ki & I working on the house!

Well here we are moving cinder-block from one location to another. This happened almost every day and was really hard work. We all appear to be really happy about the fact we are loading block after block but we are only smiling for the camera, and apparently Kil'ee found the energy to pose.
Here we are filling the cracks between the blocks with concrete. We actually became decent at this task, though I wouldn't recommend hiring us. We eventually ended up walking along the beams about 5 feet off the ground doing this and although I am a big chicken, I pulled my self together on the unstable beams and helped get the job done.
We actually had to mix the cement and concrete. First we would shovel the amount of wheelburrows full of dirt or rocks needed, and then we would add the cement bags. Mixing it all together was by far the hardest and most exhausting job we did. The second to last day we mixed 14 wheelburrows full of dirt with 7 wheelburrows full of rock and 8 bags of concrete at once. It was painfully exhausting.
This is me mixing cement.
This is a lovely picture of Ki and I carrying buckets of concrete to pour on the ground making the floor for the home. If you can't tell, we are covered in it and quite disgusting. I had bruises on my arm and leg from holding, lifting and carrying the buckets.