What a day! For some reason I couldn't sleep last night but somehow was able to stay awake in 30+ C blistering heat working my bollas off on the school project. We started with a lovely eggs, fruit and bagel breakfast at Bread and Chocolate around the corner. We arrived at the work site just after 9 and got started right away.
There are 5 major tasks we need to complete: tiling, adding a tin roof, adding fence windows, painting and completing a concrete walkway around the building. Today we nearly completed the concrete walkways and finished the first coat of paint. I've never appreciated cement mixers more in my life. We had to do muchos shovelling ! Costa Rican builders don't generally use machine cement mixers for these types of projects so we had to shovel lots of dirt to mix with cement and water. I think our fellow builder Coco was entertained by our lack of skill. Remember, we are a team of weak ass computer nerds who spend 40+ hour weeks in a cubicles click - clacking away on our keyboard and mouse while sipping on stale burnt coffee.
It was easily +30C in the blistering heat with very little shade for most the day. Sweat was pouring down my face as my deodorant seemed to be ineffective after about 10:30am! I drank at least 5 bottles of water and only peed once...I was leaking so much. We got a lot done today but I feel like a huge wimp!
Tomorrow shouldn't be so rough...so says our foreman Ernesto. I guess we will find out tomorrow.
There are 5 major tasks we need to complete: tiling, adding a tin roof, adding fence windows, painting and completing a concrete walkway around the building. Today we nearly completed the concrete walkways and finished the first coat of paint. I've never appreciated cement mixers more in my life. We had to do muchos shovelling ! Costa Rican builders don't generally use machine cement mixers for these types of projects so we had to shovel lots of dirt to mix with cement and water. I think our fellow builder Coco was entertained by our lack of skill. Remember, we are a team of weak ass computer nerds who spend 40+ hour weeks in a cubicles click - clacking away on our keyboard and mouse while sipping on stale burnt coffee.
It was easily +30C in the blistering heat with very little shade for most the day. Sweat was pouring down my face as my deodorant seemed to be ineffective after about 10:30am! I drank at least 5 bottles of water and only peed once...I was leaking so much. We got a lot done today but I feel like a huge wimp!
Tomorrow shouldn't be so rough...so says our foreman Ernesto. I guess we will find out tomorrow.
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