Today was our last build day at Emilio’s house. Since there
was no official scaffolding, we could only build rows to the height that we
could reach by standing on the ground under our ‘safety-first’ rule. Another
team from the
USA
is arriving next week to continue work on Emilio’s house – so he should be able
to move in fairly soon.
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| Everyone Busy - Just one more row... |
We ended up building 6 wall segments, and Emilio was very
pleased to see the house becoming a reality where there only used to be an
empty piece of land.
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| Check out how smooth that mortar joint is! |
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| A happy worker is a good worker |
To show us what a finished house looked like – we took a
short tour through the neighbourhood – you can see below the comparison between
a new ‘seed’ house, and one of the older shacks in the neighbourhood.
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| A Small Seed House |
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| ... a shack. |
To celebrate, we had an enormous BBQ, complete with beef (of
course), chicken, some excellent sausages, roaster veggies, salads,
breads…. One of Emilio’s relatives was
the BBQ master – he is a butcher, so he knows his stuff. In accordance with
Argentine tradition, we all gave a cheer when he announced that the meal was ready.
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| BBQ! |
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| Emilio handing out certificates. We Passed !! |
