Habitat for Humanity: First Trip
On Saturday, I went on a Habitat build to Eldama Ravine in Rift Valley. We had to be at school at 5:30 in the morning and we came back at 5:30 in the evening so it was more tiring than usual. To be honest, this trip was a little disappointing for me because it wasn’t as much fun as the other builds I have gone on. On all the other builds I’ve gone on, we started off by digging the foundations, then we carried bricks and mixed cement, and if we had enough time, we would start putting the bricks into the foundations and filling the gaps with cement. The last step was my favorite and I always had fun doing it. This time, we spent the whole four hours digging the foundations and we still didn’t finish. Normally, seventeen of us dig the foundations for two houses in less than three hours, so I felt like we didn’t accomplish as much as we should have this time around. I feel like we should have helped more and used more effort. However, I don’t think it was laziness, I just think it was a different terrain that was causing the problem. We used to build houses in Maai Mahiu, which is in the Rift Valley, and is very dusty, so the ground was easier to dig, but this time the ground was wet and hard and rocky, so it was very hard to dig.
On Saturday, I went on a Habitat build to Eldama Ravine in Rift Valley. We had to be at school at 5:30 in the morning and we came back at 5:30 in the evening so it was more tiring than usual. To be honest, this trip was a little disappointing for me because it wasn’t as much fun as the other builds I have gone on. On all the other builds I’ve gone on, we started off by digging the foundations, then we carried bricks and mixed cement, and if we had enough time, we would start putting the bricks into the foundations and filling the gaps with cement. The last step was my favorite and I always had fun doing it. This time, we spent the whole four hours digging the foundations and we still didn’t finish. Normally, seventeen of us dig the foundations for two houses in less than three hours, so I felt like we didn’t accomplish as much as we should have this time around. I feel like we should have helped more and used more effort. However, I don’t think it was laziness, I just think it was a different terrain that was causing the problem. We used to build houses in Maai Mahiu, which is in the Rift Valley, and is very dusty, so the ground was easier to dig, but this time the ground was wet and hard and rocky, so it was very hard to dig.
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