Day 6: Thursday (a-bramblin' we will go)

(Just a warning, this post is image intensive)

Last day of work today, and I don't know about the rest of the team, but I'm exhausted.

One crew worked on the forms some more, and when they ran out of wood, they started tying rebar.













The team got 15 and a half boxes done today. They originally said they were going to need a total of 44 boxes, but after talking to Cuthbert (the foreman), he thinks they can reuse what we've built, so they're done. :-)

The rest of us went ''brambling"--working on clearing the field of the brambles, which are huge, interconnected, tangled vine-like things.





The field/site went from this



to this


We even worked in the pouring rain. And Sara K. is amazing. (She also somehow managed to be the dirtiest one out of the entire group.)

And just so y'all can see how the Lord is working though this team...



Cheryl, Ashley, and John with Duane

















I have to say, I've got a much better appreciation of "those who have gone before" after this week. We were the first team on the ground for this project, and a lot of what we did isn't going to necessarily be remembered once the school is built. There's no building to show what we did, just 15 boxes and a now-empty field. But the school couldn't be built without the work we did. I think it's really cool that we were the first team, that the next group (which arrives on Saturday) and the team after that and the team after that and the team after that and... will be building on what we did this week.

How awesome is that?

Location:Camalote Camp, Belize