Power of the girls

16/5/2010

The day started off with construction again, but things had been fun and rewarding at the same time, as we literally saw how the roof structure was taking shape in a few days time. We had a lot of fun doing some playful things together – drilling the timber in weird positions and competing in chiseling off the pole etc, playful but of course, safe as I was keeping an eye on all of them working in the construction site (unfortunately I was assigned the safety officer of the project, thanks to Jian Long who could not join us for the trip)

Most of us did not really have experience in working on hands-on project like this, and that’s why most of us were really excited using all those tools. The girls were particularly aggressive as they obviously outnumbered the guys in this team and they really wanted to prove their capability in this aspect. While the guys were the ones holding the scaffolding for them, the girls were using their “cow not bull” strength sawing and chiseling the timber structure, and not forgetting Leonard and Jeremy who were enjoying the ‘drilling’ work so much.


Construction was fun because the tasks were still within our capability, and we could see the result really fast we thought that we could finish the structure in a few days time. No, not for the weather, it was really scorching hot we all craved for Zesto mango and orange juice and iced water, you could imagine how Larry got his ‘breast burn’ under this weather.





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