Action/Service: Another build (:

On the 26th of March, Ms. Wolf, Esfar, James and I left on a Habitat For Humanity build. Esfar and I had gone on builds before but this was James' first time. The site we went to was a new one that none of us had ever been to before, it could be seen though that other people from Habitat For Humanity had already been to this site and had helped contruct houses. After a bit of delay getting to the site due to some confusion regarding the sites location and because of bad weather, we arrived and got straight to work.

We were pleasantly surprised to find that 4 girls from the Asian International School were already there helping out and that we would be working with them on constructing one of the houses faster and more efficiently. Similar to last time I went on a build, we put together the various components that make up cement and then formed chains of people to pass the containers filled with cement. At the end of the line was the mason who laid down the cement and smoothed it out to make the floor. We worked hard doing this over and over again until we were called for lunch (prepared by local women, we each gave 300rp for the lunch).

After lunch, we had a small ceremony of thanks with some of the locals and then left back to Colombo, happy with the work we had accomplished and eager to jump into the shower ASAP!

àIn addition, on the 30th of April we went on another build and essentially did the same work as the previous build I described above. The weather was nice so we were able to work for several hours straight completing an entire floor of a house.