Archive for June 16th, 2009

16
Jun

Long Day

   Posted by: Chipman   in Malawi 2009

Thought I’d add just a bit more. The house is moving along nicely. We feel good about the progress and should be able to take it pretty far along.

There were a ton of kids that hung around today. It started with 4-5 and there were probably 20-30 on site by day’s end. They were stoked to see all of us and absolutly love to have their pictures taken. They particularly like it when you show it to them on the screen (of a digital camera). I took a few pics of them today, and will try to get one up if I get time. Some of the ladies tought them songs and at one time I looked over and they were playing duck, duck, goose. Incredible.

Let me just say that by day’s end when I looked back at the house and the amount of work we got done I was truly touched. Simply amazing here in so many ways, both good and bad.

16
Jun

Things are going well

   Posted by: Chipman   in Malawi 2009

This is a truss. I built 4 of them today with a Malawian "framing
foreman" named Tenfortenna. He's a stud and could totally be a
framer in the US. We've got 9 more to build, but we should be able to
start raising the roof tommorow. So far so good!