Blisters, blisters…blisters!
Tuesday and Wednesday we continued building, but also planned some activities with the students. There will have to be a lot of digging to prepare for the pillars that will support the 1st floor. A larger square had to be dug out about every three metres along the trench where the digger couldn’t reach. All that digging resulted in blisters. During some of the breaks, so many of them had to be pricked open, it was like a scene from the four-day hiking event in Nijmegen.
Today was also laundry day. The first lot of concrete reinforcement was put in for the piles.
Thursday
When we woke up we saw that the builders were preparing the concrete: they had made a sand-cement mixture on the floor bed and were adding stones before mixing in water to make concrete. It was a big volume and at least six men were needed to handle it all. We had a debate today with some of the older school students, the subject being that science and technology cause more damage than they do good. Although the students didn’t agree with it themselves, they were expected to defend it. Fun to be part of it. In the afternoon we went shopping in Mbarara. We urgently needed to buy some groceries like tea, salt, sugar, fruit and soft drinks. By the time we got back to the project it was 8 o’clock.
Good night.