Rain, almost
Trip Start
Jul 17, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 16, 2008
Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
- rain
- thunder
It was amzing to see the progress. We were back at the first day's site. In the meantime they had bricked half the house. Things were progressing very quickly!
We started the day with a morning stretch and quickly got to work. During the day the hardest task was probably the person who had to entertain the three year old. He had so much energy and we had to take shifts running around after him.
One of the Habitat workers' name is Bobby. He was the main brick layer on the site. He is a deaf-mute but was unbelivably funny. Not being able to speak clearly gave him an advantage in communicating with us since he was used to hand gestures already. He is an amazing person and I'm glad that the group was able to spend time with him and got to know him a little bit.
Our lunch consisted of single burgers. The burgers were loaded with vegetables ... and mayo. These might be enough for Mongolians but definitely not enough for us. Thankfully our hosts offered us homemade dumplings. Lots of them. After we had had our fill we still had 8 left. In order to determine who had to eat them, we played categories. Categories is pretty simple. Someone chooses a cateogry and you go around the circle saying something of that category. When someone takes too long, says a duplicate or a wrong answer they eat. Or drink when it's played as a drinking game. We got rid of the dumplings.
Jake is still the family favorite. When the family when into their house to eat, we had invited in for some hearty soup.
This work site had power tools. A huge luxury on the build sites. Many sites didn't even have screwdrivers which hampered our ability to put up drywall. We made a run to the hardware store to pick up some extra tools.
