On Tuesday we got up for our morning breakfast at the hotel. The breakfast starts at 6:30am is pretty good. You can have a fresh omlette or eggs made to order. They also have pancakes, beans, plantains and lots of fresh fruit. So it is a good way to get some nutrition before working. We leave for the worksite at 7:30am and get there about 8:00am. Tuesday was mostly using paint brushes to put a thin primer of cement on the walls. We are not sure, but we think it keeps the cinder block from absorbing too much of the paint that will go on the walls next. We also worked on the floors inside the house, which means moving in about 2-3 inches of sand and pounding it down with "tampers". The tampers are basically a stick with a concrete block at the end of it to give it weight. You raise the tamper and pound it into the sand. They ocassionally spray it with water. Water seems much more readily available this year. There is water next door and there are no meters for measuring its use, at least that we could see. Last year's worksite the water spigots locked up, so water must be much more expensive at higher elevations, maybe need to pump it. The goal of tamping is try to get it so compact that when you push in a piece of rebar it will only go in about an inch. This is pretty hard to do. Eventually they will put some type of tile on top of the compacted sand.
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| Picture of us painting the walls with the concrete primer |
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| Picture of Jon cleaning debris from the floor before putting sand down |
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| Van, Roy, Kathryn, Kathy, Gail and Mary priming the walls witht he concrete primer |
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| Picture of Van mixing the concrete primer witht he owner of the house |
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| Picture of people putting primer on the main room of the house |
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| Picture of Kathryn drawing pictures with two of the kids from the neighborhood |
Video of Kathryn playing tag with some of the kids in the neighborhood. School is not in session right now and we are the main attraction this week in their neighborhood
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