We did it with two wheel barrows and one motor operated mixer. The center is measures about 24ft by 70 ft, right around 1500 square feet. I can´t tell you how good it felt to get the cement mixture out of my hair, eyes, ears and nose. We shoveled rock and sand and lifted cement all day....but boy it felt good to do it. The men doing the work with the concrete are from the barrio and work all day for free. The local missionaries want them to take some kind of ownership in what they are doing in the barrio. They were amazing! They level the concrete in ways that seem so backward to us, but for them it works perfect. Needless to say there are a lot of sore bodies and tired people tonight.
It felt even better to take the last hour and a half of the afternoon and spend it with some of the kids that are becoming our friends. We are welcome by these children each day with a smile, a greeting and an exchange of kisses on the cheeks. One little boy even came out to show us that he could ask our names in english. It is so cool. What hurts so much is to have to leave them each day in the barrio and we get to go back to clean rooms, clean sheets and a meal.
I did get to taste a dish that one of the families in the barrio had prepared for lunch today to feed some of the workers. It consisted of potatoes, eggs and a sauce that was prepared with cheese, milk and I think she said peppers and it was all on rice. It was delicious. Tonight our missionaries treated us to a bonfire and hambergers and french fries. Huanchaco is a village or town that sits right on the Pacific Ocean. It was so cool to have the fire and the waves crashing on the shore in the background.
More work at the community center tomorrow. I think we are going to start putting up walls. Amazing!
Until tomorrow!
God Bless!
Mitch
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