Trenches
Habitat for Humanity
Well a group of us (7 HCAers, Anna and Matias) all headed down to Temuco to do habitat for humanity. It really fun and completely different from any habitat experience I ever had in the states. For starters our first task was to take off the newly placed walls of the houses...which was weird. We were helping expand a section of small governmental homes for people and by the time the house is finished the house will have doubled it in size. The house as a finished product will be 43 meters squared...which is SMALL.
Monday and Tuesday we had to dig trenches which was hard cause the soil was rock solid. Wednesday I got rained on for about an hour. Once the rain ended, we went out with the hopes to dig more trenches only to find moats. Our trenches were so great that they kept all the rain in. Since we didn't want to dig up water we went to go build the wall frames which was fun. Thursday is when the fun end when we were told that the first trenches we made were completely wrong because the maestros or the experts measured everything wrong. So Thursday and Friday our group got to redo the work that we did the first two days. Boo to that.
The view around there was nice. Chile has so many great views the scenery changes drastically within a two hour car drive - or for me a bus ride...since the only wheels we got are our bikes that currently have flats in them. But back to the scenery - for instance today I took a break and walked up a hill and got a great view of volcanoes...it was breathtaking. I was in the middle of a wheat field looking at three snow covered active volcanoes. Only in Chile could I have done this.
Altogether Habitat was an interesting experience. Despite all the re-digging trenches I am sure that all 9 of us would say "I would do it again next year if I could."
Well a group of us (7 HCAers, Anna and Matias) all headed down to Temuco to do habitat for humanity. It really fun and completely different from any habitat experience I ever had in the states. For starters our first task was to take off the newly placed walls of the houses...which was weird. We were helping expand a section of small governmental homes for people and by the time the house is finished the house will have doubled it in size. The house as a finished product will be 43 meters squared...which is SMALL.
Monday and Tuesday we had to dig trenches which was hard cause the soil was rock solid. Wednesday I got rained on for about an hour. Once the rain ended, we went out with the hopes to dig more trenches only to find moats. Our trenches were so great that they kept all the rain in. Since we didn't want to dig up water we went to go build the wall frames which was fun. Thursday is when the fun end when we were told that the first trenches we made were completely wrong because the maestros or the experts measured everything wrong. So Thursday and Friday our group got to redo the work that we did the first two days. Boo to that.
The view around there was nice. Chile has so many great views the scenery changes drastically within a two hour car drive - or for me a bus ride...since the only wheels we got are our bikes that currently have flats in them. But back to the scenery - for instance today I took a break and walked up a hill and got a great view of volcanoes...it was breathtaking. I was in the middle of a wheat field looking at three snow covered active volcanoes. Only in Chile could I have done this.
Altogether Habitat was an interesting experience. Despite all the re-digging trenches I am sure that all 9 of us would say "I would do it again next year if I could."
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