Advertisement
Published: November 13th 2018
Edit Blog Post
Written by Leo Pavliv
While it hadn't rained overnight, waking up early Saturday morning, the clouds looked ominous and the skies opened up for the first of a number of downpours that day. We were all very disappointed when the call came in, cancelling the build, but the celebration with Juan and Yessica was still on at the local Rugby club building. The usual hour long drive stretched on as the weather continued to not cooperate and we had several more periods where the skies opened up and it was raining gatos y peros. An ark may have been a better mode of transportation that day but Yessica was there to warmly greet every one of us and of course to feed us more than we could eat.At the end
of lunch, we presented Yessica with some photos to remember our visit and she presented each member with a small handmade animal as yet another sign of how appreciative she was of our help. While Yessica and Juan were thankful for our help, we were all thankful for an amazing experience and that we could provide them even just a little help, so they can have a decent place to live. We ended the afternoon all very happy, having made friends in another part of the world.We had so much rain that day that the water crept through the doors and filled half the rugby club floor and on the drive home we saw people pulled over on the side of the road, scooping water out of the inside of
their car.Since this was my first GV trip, I wanted to share a few overall impressions. I was most impressed with the people. There were my fellow teammates from NC (and SC and CA). The work was hard but no one complained and everyone stepped in to help whatever task needed to be done. We threw "spears" to loosen dirt, bent rebar by hand, carried 1000's of buckets of dirt and mixed, poured and spread numerous loads of concrete. The people in the Habitat office in Argentina were wonderful and incredibly warm, and we all hope to see them again. It's hard to say enough about the families. They work long days, commute hours to and <br style="color: font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"
/>from work and then build much of their houses by themselves into the night with just a little help from us. We all now have friends from NC, SC, CA, Spain, France, and of course, Argentina
Advertisement
Tot: 0.158s; Tpl: 0.01s; cc: 5; qc: 44; dbt: 0.1253s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.1mb