Day Two At the Worksite- Wednesday

When we arrived today at the classroom we were building, we were greeted by the village children who were happy to see us again. We were excited to see that the school had built two soccer nets. Ephram, the forman quickly put us to work. Some were asked to hand mix the cement while others were filing a wheel barrel with sand and pushing it to the classroom. Inside some of our team worked on the floor, smoothing the cement with a trowel. Others worked outside tuck pointing the bricks. Ever once and a while we rotated job responsibilities.

At about lunch time Maya presented the school with three soccer balls and one volleyball. She also gave the students a picture of the students at her school who had raised the money for the soccer balls. We also presented green soccer jerseys and matching green socks to the highschool soccer team. Maya was overwhelmed with the emotion and responsiveness of the students to these gifts. It was very impressive when the soccer team came running out of their classroom wearing their new jerseys. They were like any sports team that would enter a stadium for a big match. We were a little intimated as the team went through their warm-ups as we watched.