Howdy Hozers!!
Well...here we are, already day number four into a fourteen day Habitat for Humanity build in Macedonia. The team has just been thrown into a whirlwind of trenching and plastering, trenching and plastering, plastering and trenching, jack-hammering, trenching and plastering...all with the eventual goal of making a dent on the HfH project meant to produce a complex comprised of eleven apartment buildings, each containing six apartments for a total of 102 families.
Though we've only known each other for a short while, the team has embraced the chance to do a couple of weeks of life together with the same desires to do a little good in Macedonia before heading back home.
Now, as soon as I was asked to produce a blog for the team, my mind scrambled to brainstorm possible writing material...but I was not short of inspiriation as we've managed to squeeze into our first few days a trip to a Casino where Ted lost A THOUSAND D's (Denaires; actually only about 20 bucks, but sounds crazier if you don't know the conversion), eating copious amounts of neck, eventfully killing many unlucky flies (it was interesting to us), buy some local Mac wear, visit some pretty wicked early Christian ruins, chill and watch a soccer game with the locals, make dozens of dog friends, add some slavic curse words to our vocabulary, dance with some local dance crews, and oh yeah, did I mention we plastered and trenched?
The pictures do the randomness some justice, but as the team (who you'll meet in a future blog) embraces this chance we've been given to practice what we'd like to see more of in the world, without a doubt we'll have some more intricate stories to share... Tomorrow's intinerary: build and then wine tour, followed by a weekend spent in Ohrid city and then week 2 will commence already (can't believe it!)...time flies when you're having fun...and killing flies...
Ciao for now!
No comments:
Post a Comment