Femtonde arbetsdagen

Torsdagen den 22 maj var det min tur att vara dagledare. Vi har turats om att leda gruppen och jag lyckades med bedriften att bli den siste av volontärerna. Det är dagledarens uppgift att delegera arbetsuppgifter så att arbetskraften utnyttjas optimalt samt att summera dagen på bloggen (http://www.tofoschool.blogspot.com/). Jag orkade inte översätta texten till svenska eftersom ungefär samma grejer skulle bli nämnda på min personliga blogg så här kommer mitt inlägg på den engelska bloggen:

Thursday 22 may - ‘Up we go’

Mattias ‘the iron-man’ Stridh could not have had a better day as day leader. With the old inefficient cement mixer broken, a new sand delivery on its way, the team fit (also reinforced by John, Petrina’s boyfriend) and with Ian ‘the time-waster’ finally out of the way, we could now get things moving a bit quicker.

While waiting for the sand delivery and a brand new larger cement mixer, we hand-mixed some mortar and started off with the block-works on the southern walls. Neil held a short introductory lesson on bricking and the whole team went off putting the blocks up. In just a few hours, the walls took shape and for the first time, the school developed vertically and was no longer just a big invisible useless junk of concrete in the ground.

Just before lunch we had both sand and a new mixer delivered and while a few continued with the joy of blocking, others had the less fortunate and strenuous task of providing the cement mixer with a steady flow of raw materials and shipping the concrete out to the floor.

After an extremely efficient day with everyone busy at all times, we finally ran out of rocks for the concrete with only 15 minutes left of the working day. Just enough time to pack up and clean the gear. With new materials delivered at 07:00 in the morning, we can look back on this marvellous day as one of the most productive and most enjoyable so far. In fact, the day was so perfect that one could not think of anything that could make the day much better except eggballs. I can confirm that we did not have Santa’s eggballs for breakfast.




Murar