Team 2 Day 1

Today team two started their work. We met the trucks at the town center and took a typical fast crazy Guatemala drive to the area where these houses were going to be built. The family looked on shyly as we unloaded out equipment and started getting ready to build. We are building two houses, one for a family of five the other for a family of six. Immediately we saw a young girl of one of the families struggling to carry a cement-block up the hill. One of us meet her to carry it the rest of the way up. As soon as the young girl had handed of the block she ran down and started carrying another one up.




We worked on the foundation of the house today. We started by digging a trench around where the house is going to be. This turned out to be an adventure for both groups. One group encountered some hard clay that took all of their muscles to dig though. My group encountered several rats. We tried our best to save them, we put them over in the field next to us. However this effort did not work. The mom of one of the family saw the rats and went over and whacked them with a stick. We ended by mixing some concrete and laying the footer. Then we waited around for the trucks to come back. For an hour or so some of us rested while others played with the kids. Slowly the family became less shy. Then we hopped back on the truck to go wash up and eat. It was an awesome start to our trip--to see how these people live and everything we take for granted. Hopefully this will make their lives just a little easier.


Jonathan (Potatoes) Hubbard