Day three

5/26/2015

Today was our first work day. We were broken up into three groups for three different sites. When I first got there I was nervous about the language barrier. Luckily Briant was there to translate because the people we were working with didn’t speak any English. When Briant left the site I had a hard time understanding what the builders were trying to say.

         The work we did was pretty difficult. My first job was bending rebar. It was tedious and I kept hitting my knuckles on the wood. The sun was shining directly above us. The metal I was handling was really hot. It hurt to touch so I had to wear gloves. After I finished that job I had to help dig out the foundation. The ground was really hard because of the clay. We had to break it up and then shovel out the clay. It was difficult to get a shovel full because the ditch was about 2 ft wide.

         The woman of the house gave us all mango juice. I accepted it because I didn’t want to be rude. I was very nervous about getting sick from it  because we were told not to drink or eat anything that the fuller center didn’t have prepared for us. It was one of the friendlier gestures I noticed from the family. They all seemed shy to me.