Okay, we promise the update on the walls will be over soon! It takes a long time to do this stuff :) So, as the headline mentions, today we continued the work on the walls. Good news is that the interior walls are now complete and we just have to finish the exterior!
At lunch we took a field trip and ate lunch at a local orphanage which also runs a bakery to support their work. There are about 20 kids who live there, ranging in age from 5-15 but they were all gone to school when we arrived. We were served a wonderful Thai lunch and were given a tour by Kelly - and American now living in Thailand and engaged to be married to a Thai man. She met him when she came here for a Habitat build and and he was the Thai Habitat leader on the build site. She has since moved here and is supporting many local initiatives, including this orphanage. The kids who live at this orphange were either orphaned by the tsunami or their parents cannot afford to care for them. Kelly reports the home is full of love and the children are very happy and well cared for.
After lunch we returned to the job site to continue exterior wall work and to clean up the job site. Due to the fact that there are so many of us and so few scaffolding sets, we had to rotate the upper level work.
The weather continues to be great this week! The heat is still very present, but it has been more cloudy all week, which makes a HUGE difference :)
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