Thursday was a day of work work work for most of us. Most of us headed straight to the job site for lots of hard labor to get the house ready to finish. We poured the final support columns and cut more angled blocks for the top of the walls to create and angled roof. We added a type of stucko finish to the house and used a hand made chisel to create channels in the block for the shower and water lines in the "bathroom".
Our guatemalan construction team added a member, David's 4 year old son Alfredo came along to learn from dad and grandpa (julio) on the job.
At lunch we ran into a group of Architect students from Canada and, in the spirit of Tom Sawyer, explained how much fun digging a trench for the water and sewer lines was - so we had 5 extra sets of hands for the afternoon. They were some great guys and a lot of fun to work with.
We also learned a lot of new words both in Spanish and Katchekel and our new friends enjoyed learning some new English words.
While the other 6 of us worked at the site, Tim and Scott went to visit some of Tim's sponsored children. What a great experience to get to visit each of your children in their own homes. The families were thrilled to welcome Tim and meet Scott, and many hugs were shared.
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