Thursday, 7 November 2019

07/11/19 Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to work we go

Feels like a lifetime waiting to start work, technical session should have been yesterday PM, then this morning and now 'after Dal Bhat'.

Spent the morning teaching the kids how to safely use a pick and shovel plus using the 3 from the group who had been in a Community in the 1st phase to tell the others what they did.

10.30am the project partner's techical guy turned up on the back of a motorcycle.

The long awaited techical session consisted of pointing at the line for the trench.

Group divided into 2 teams, 20 mins on 20 mins off....but not before having to draw numbers to see if we were odd or even. I have to bite my tongue. Why wait 10 mins for 16 pieces of paper to be written on, folded, handed out and then a coin toss to see whether odds or evens go first....

A solid 3 hour dig results in about 20m of trench, soil and rock grading and levelling the a section of roadway. Not a bad afternoon.

Back home for 4pm, time for a cold bucket shower, change and sit down before evening Dal Bhat.


2 comments:

  1. Loving all of these updates and sounds fantastic... great entertainment in the morning commute! Jason

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  2. Always a pleasure to brighten your day mate!

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