Putting on a Good Face (Or the front of the house!): August 5, 2009

Pretty relaxing day on the job site as we could only do so much at one time. I had a busy day, I was one of the ones that got to plaster the front of the house! It was a much faster process mixing the mortar and then sliding it on to the front of the house. It looks a lot easier than it actually is!! There definitely is a technique and the skilled workers had to show us a couple of times how to do it or adjust what we were doing to make the plaster stick better. Doing this, you also had to make sure it was leveling out the brick walls they may have been off before as well. Mard helped me and Ashley do the front of the house. We were pretty much perfectionists when it came to this making it as smooth as possible the first time around. There were a couple of girls doing a different inside wall that would just slab it on. When the skilled workers went around to level it, they had to smooth it down again with another layer.

I found the first scorpion of the trip…hiding out under the concrete blocks, it was pretty big for a baby (I was told by Tom). Harley, our taxi driver stepped right over and picked it up with a piece of wood to move him where more people could see him. So I never really did find out his real name… but I started calling him Harley because he always wore Harley Davidson T’s! By the second day of me calling him Harley, he responded to it and everyone began calling him that!! He thought it was so funny everytime!

It is crazy to think that tomorrow is our last day of working here! We will have accomplished pretty much all of our work schedule that we can do. The remainder needs to be done by skilled workers and the family (such as the interior decorating).