Monday, August 19, 2013


Happy Monday from South Africa! After two days off, today was a long grueling yet very productive day of work! This morning started early with breaking bricks, and laying out the foundation for a "car park" or  a "parking spot" for the house. It was tedious work but once it was finished it looked great!

Next portion of the day was much more challenging. We laid sod to create a yard for the house. The sod was dropped off and it was our job to move it accordingly and place it on the dirt that we raked level. I think we were all happy when this job was completed! Our muscles are sore but the outside of the house is really coming together.

Finally, we moved onto painting. We painted a base coat throughout the majority of the house and the shutters and tomorrow the main coat will be applied (which will be yellow)! We got to interact with the other African workers today which is always fun! We missed them from having a couple of days off. We all ate lunch together including the exchange students from Germany who joined us. It was pretty cool, we had people from all over the world all together for the same reason.


Until tomorrow...






1 comment:

  1. Loving the blog guys! Brings me back to all of the great memories from last year's trip. Give Jordan a hug for us, and enjoy the rest of your time in SA!

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