Monday, October 30, 2006 - Work - Day 1

After 4 days of rainy weather today was completely sunny, dry, warm, and there was a nice breeze off the Ocean. After a hearty breakfast of toast and egg omlete and a cup of Indian coffee on the side, we were off to the worksite at 9AM. Mountains off to the South and beautiful ocean view to the East made for a nice landscape view. Palm trees all around and green vegetation. Our biggest challenge was communication with the Indian laborers and contractors because there were no translators on site. But a smile and a thumbs up go a long ways. We were met at the site by George from the Discipleship Center to get us started. The work was very physical between carrying cement rocks, passing mortar in a distribution line, and to making reinforcements from the rebarb. We had lunch in the nearby village that caught the attention of some young children close by. We got all the cement rocks in place for the foundations of the house before we ended our workday around 4:30pm. We packed 21 team members into a 14 passenger bus.................with Skip Dodge, Melissa Parish, and Judy Rupis all in the front seat of the bus.

Foundation of house at the beginning of the day

Kevin Maggert

Bud Vanderbutts

Cindy Shuder with mortar

Mike Worden and Chad Anderson

Shelly Jackson with Indian friend

Chad Simpson drinking Miranda pop from a bag. That's how they do it in India!

Vel Rassi

Melissa Parish collecting the empty pans

Cindy Shuder passing on mortar

Joe Wisler carrying concrete rocks

Crew working on the mortar on the foundation of the house

Village children

Joe Wisler and David Leist

Nancy Leist and Chad Anderson

Mortar poured in between the reinforced barb to create the foundation of the house

Skip Dodge cutting rebarb

Foundation of house at the end of the day

How we are at the end of the first work day....................EXHAUSTED!!!

Terry Akins and Alan Snell