Breakfast at 7 - sausage, eggs and beans again and off to
work.
We were not sure when we started this how much physical
work we would be doing. But everyone has been laying bricks for 8 hours a day.
At the end of day 2 house one has walls almost finished to ceiling level,
internal door frames fitted and 1 window in. Tomorrow will be gables and
internal walls. House two isn't far behind.
Estina, who will live in house one, has been helping get
water, pass us bricks and matope, helped by her sister in law. Regina's eldest
son, John, has been helping move matope for team 2.
The children have got to know us better today and have
been singing for us. We have challenged them to a football match tomorrow at
3.30 so had to stop on the way back to the luge to buy a football and took the
opportunity to buy and taste sugar cane. Tomorrow we are visiting the primary
school where the village children go and also a maize mill to see how the maize
is processed to a flour from which they make nmosi, their staple diet.
Everyone back now and showering - it really is a very
dusty job, but great fun and everyone much more confident with their building
skills today. We get visited regularly during work by hens and chickens, ducks
and ducklings, goats and pigs. All makes the day interesting.
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