And here's what a new house in progress looks like. This is the one I'm working on. It's going to have two bedrooms, a kitchen and a porch. The new houses have concrete foundations and floors, with concrete block walls. The roofs are made with wooden beams and sheets of metal. The men in the community make blocks with sand, water and cement. The blocks dry really quickly in the Honduran sun. Then, helpful gringos like myself haul the blocks up this massive hill to whatever house they're working on.
That's essentially what I did today. Hauled blocks. Heavy blocks. In the scorching sun. I also did some shoveling, to help even out the dirt floor so concrete can be poured. It was kind of hard and a little boring, but also fulfilling to do something so tangible. At the beginning of today, there was just a foundation. When we quit working in the late afternoon, there were walls stacked three blocks high.
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