Diversifying

Today was a mix of things. There was a little brick tossing, some brick walking (carrying them instead of throwing them), some brick stacking, some cement mixing, some mortar work, dirt shoveling, and a lot more water toting by the team. As mentioned before, to get water to the work site, water has to be transported up a steep hill by a guy pushing a bicycle. Approximately three plastic containers weighing approximately 50 pounds can be brought up in one trip. Several members of the team wanted to lessen the amount of times the worker had to go up and down the hill and helped hand carry two containers of water at a time up the hill. Extremely exhausting work.

The workers building the wall have commented several times to different team members that they are amazed that the team has been pitching in with the manual labor. They assumed that people from the United States did not do these kinds of things and it really, really surprised them. It was actually really nice to get to know and talk to the workers. Even though there was a bit of a language/accent barrier, we managed to joke and get to know people a little.

We had lunch back at the hotel and then when we returned to Humble, we all just sort of started playing with the kids, though I don't think that was supposed to be on the agenda at the time. But they were out of school and who can resist playing with these wonderful kids? We played with some of the new balls, but it was sad to watch the girls trying to play a kind of hopping through rope game with pieces of plastic tied together. Every time one of the kids would hit the plastic, it would break and they would have to retie it.

The adults on our team then attended a fellowship with the staff of Humble. It was a great service. Cheers for now