Day 5

Day 5 –Tuesday

Team 1- Josh, Hannah, Courtney, Ebony, Toby

After two days of very early starts today we were finally able to “sleep in” to 7. We knew a long day of building was ahead as we planned to lay the slab of a third floor children’s play area. In addition some of the team helped to plaster a classroom. It was good to have Erin back in action after a bout of gastro.

We started at 8 in the morning and the first part of the construction was making the concrete. This required carting buckets of sand, blue metal, and bags of cement toward the mixer. The concrete was bucketed and transferred along a construction line, up three levels of scaffolding and then poured. The buckets were thrown down and the process started again. We only stopped for Merriander (smoko) and lunch.

At three, the Rehobothians were told to drop the buckets and we were going to attend a feeding program for a local squatters village in Angono. We were told that the food was generally for the kids of the community. We walked the streets (the ones that weren’t knee deep in water) of the squatter’s village announcing the hot food as available. It was great to see the excitement on all the kids’ faces as they ran to grab their bowls, cups, containers and friends. One local woman was particularly impressed/ entertained with Josh’s Gangnam Style. As the food ran out the kids became desperate to get to the front of the line and it was heartbreaking to have to say “Sorry there’s none left.”  In addition we had some fun with the kids making asos and ispadas (dogs and swords) with balloons and creating constructions with pipe cleaners.

We returned home for a mas masarap dinner and were told of our night activity; a pedicure and manicure for the girls from the “House of Amos” (and a full salon that resides in the Yun Jin Ministry Centre), and for the dudes to ease our pain and discomfort from the days work. First though, our night duties at the children’s home called for Team 2 to put on a puppet show, using the left over pipe cleaners and balloons, of Noah in the big fish (Chelsea could not draw a whale and “the bible actually doesn’t say it was a whale”). We returned from our various treatments in a rested condition and ready for a good night’s sleep.