Today started at 6:30am with the typical symphony of natural sounds including roosters, stray dogs and creaking bodies after 3 hours of street basketball the night before. Playing basketball against the local pastors and Christians was a great encouragement to them as they flogged us three games to one.
We started our serious projects this morning; removing existing scaffolding and preparing the re-enforcing bars to enable the pouring of the main slab of the children’s home later this week. This was a big deal as it required 250 6 metre lengths of steel rod hand tied in a grid pattern and the production of large ramps and platforms to move the industrial cement mixers up to the first floor.
We had a wonderful lunch today to celebrate the birthdays of Stephen Cressie and Cedreck (one of the children from the children’s home). This was hosted by Glen and Grace (a couple who have provided the land for the new children’s home) and held at one of Malaybalay’s finest restaurants, home of the very tasty Shanghai Lumpia, chicken on a stick and iced mango drinks.
After lunch we continued to tie the re-enforcing bar for what seemed like forever, but we were sustained by the amazing provision of local bananas and the spectacular view of the Philippines second highest mountain Mt Katanglid. The day ended differently with someone leaving the guys dorm open with lights on attracting what looked like all of Malaybalay’s flying insects and a giant toad.
Looking forward to another busy productive day tomorrow.
We started our serious projects this morning; removing existing scaffolding and preparing the re-enforcing bars to enable the pouring of the main slab of the children’s home later this week. This was a big deal as it required 250 6 metre lengths of steel rod hand tied in a grid pattern and the production of large ramps and platforms to move the industrial cement mixers up to the first floor.
We had a wonderful lunch today to celebrate the birthdays of Stephen Cressie and Cedreck (one of the children from the children’s home). This was hosted by Glen and Grace (a couple who have provided the land for the new children’s home) and held at one of Malaybalay’s finest restaurants, home of the very tasty Shanghai Lumpia, chicken on a stick and iced mango drinks.
After lunch we continued to tie the re-enforcing bar for what seemed like forever, but we were sustained by the amazing provision of local bananas and the spectacular view of the Philippines second highest mountain Mt Katanglid. The day ended differently with someone leaving the guys dorm open with lights on attracting what looked like all of Malaybalay’s flying insects and a giant toad.
Looking forward to another busy productive day tomorrow.
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