Under 18's - Quepos construction project
It’s nearly the end of a very short week for us under 18
volunteers in Quepos! Although the work we've been doing has been hard (not to
mention incredibly messy), it’s been amazing fun and everyone has got so much
out of it.
Our first few days mainly consisted of lugging huge bags of
rocks to make concrete from one side of the port in Boca Vieja, onto the boat
and up to the primary school in El Cocal. Sounds like it couldn’t be much fun,
but as a team we worked together and had a pretty good time doing it! The
downside was that everyone ended up with a layer of mud on their back so thick
it was almost impossible to wash off!
More recently, we've been prepping the floor of the
classroom we’re renovating for a brand new concrete floor which should
hopefully be done tomorrow! This involved cracking up the old, broken concrete (and
accidentally breaking pipes in the process) and then carrying the rubble out of
the room for use as the foundations for a storage room which is also currently
being constructed. Everyone in the group is really motivated and breaks are
taken very rarely, but today we did have time to try some coconut water while
having a breather!
It has a very unique flavour which most of us appreciated…
It’s really rewarding for us to see just how
much progress we've made during the four days on site, and although tomorrow
will be our last day on the project, everyone has really enjoyed themselves and
we will all be checking regularly on the progress of the school renovations.
And while we've worked ourselves to sleep, we couldn't have achieved any of
this without the help of the locals who have been absolutely lovely and
dedicated some insane Tico strength to the project.
Pura Vida!
Holly Cheeseman - Under 18's volunteer
1 comments:
This is awesome!
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