Thursday, March 16, 2006

Side walls finished

Well, another productive day at the job site. We got both side walls completed and concrete poured. We got to the 17th course on the front and the 14th course on the back.

As a followup to yesterday, we bought a padlock for the concrete mixer yesterday. We had no problems with the mixer today.

Our grout crew did a great job today. Today is their hardest day because the have to grout around the entire wall and fill around and between the metal supports. Diego, Bobby, Gracie and Carolina are the main grout crew we have working. They had a lot of help today from other teams because it is such a constant flow all day.

We will definetely be finished by Friday. We are moving quickly, but we have more to do than normal- we didn't have any of the bapsistry laid up at all. Normally, the bapistry has block up to seven levels or courses high. We had none, so one of our block crews had to lay all of that block- it has taken them till today to get to that point because it is difficult work.

We really have a great team. We were considering going into Antigua tomorrow night. We are hoping to get done on thursday with the church and have friday off. We found out the option for going into town tomorrow night and the team decided that they would rather work late tomorrow and thursday to get done early on Friday to make sure we get the church done and go to Antigua. So, they decided the church comes first rather than their pleasure.

The hotel/camp we are staying at has a campfire area. We had the hotl folks get some wood for us and we had a fire tonight. Everyone came down after worship and Claudell led us in a game around the fire.

Ray has been leading team building exercises after worship. We paired off and each pair had two minutes to learn about each other. They will then tell the group about the other person throughout the week. It is a great idea and helps to get to know everyone.

More to come tomorrow.
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