Day 3

Well we had another great day. Everyone worked hard and had a lot of fun. The first picture below is a shot of the group at breakfast this morning. This room near the Peace House is where we eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We have three ladies that cook all of our meals. Most of which is rice and beans. Everyone perks up at lunch when we have something differnet like fried chicken.

Today we began work on digging the footings for the cinder block walls. Below is a picture of Denise Moody and Tania (Our translater) digging on of the footings.

Below is a picture of Carrie Shirah working on digging out the footings for another wall. The depth of the footing trenches is marked with string. Carrie had a bad reputation of cutting that string as she shoveled.

Glenda and Brandon helped gather rocks for the footings. The volcanic rock is used as a cheap reinforcement for the concrete.

Johnny liked to deliver rocks by the sack full. We said he looked like a Nicaragua Santa Claus.

This is a picture of a complete footing. We are going to let it cure overnight, so that we can lay block tomorrow.

Wes is helping Fernando install the center cross bracing for the roof. He got tasked with this because he is Muy Alto (Very Tall).

Wade´s height was also utilized as shown below.

This was Philip working his hardest all day. Your welcome students. Use this any way you want.

In the afternoon, a baseball game broke out at the worksite. Everyone had a great time. Carrie is at bat and Denise is pitching.

This is the house at the end of the day. The footings were completed and the roof has been started. Tomorrow the wall building will begin and the roof will be finished.

This is a group picture. Everyone is present in this one.

More tomorrow. Good night.