Day Five, Tean Tona

Hola de Masachapa,

Day three. Today we awoke to sunny skies and the promise of sweat, smiles and growth.
We begin with a healthy dose of huevos (eggs) and friholes (beans) and proceed en-mass to what has begun to feel comfortable, homey.
Team Tony (Tona) arrives fresh and ready to face the rigors that are implicit with any Habitat build. It begins with the creation of a less than perfect volcano which erupts liquid cement upon the immediate area. For those who don´t know a "volcano" is created when sand and  cement are combined and formed into a crater which has water as its center... a delicate shovel dance is then preformed and the result is hopefully a useable mortar mix.
Not only that but Luz Marina (who we are building for),  kicked off her flip-flops and jumped right in to save  the volcano and out danced all members of team Tona!!
I must say that the Nico's do the shovel dance way better than the Gringo´s.

The rest of the build day consisted of bricks being moved and laid. Brick´s being cut and shaped... into U-blocks to accomodate re-bar or into halves, cement being made, sand being sifted and friends being made.

Morgan was again a pied piper and led the local children in a rousing game of duck, duck goose (which cost her a scraped knee) and baseball soccer. She was also instrumental in providing a tattoo clinic for the kids, where all walked away with an RCMP beaver tattoo provide by Cheryl.
Adding to the joy of having laughing, playing children on our site was their gift to us of fresh hibiscus and other flowers that they brought to us in a steady stream.

There  were also several side trips made by members of both teams.
Adobe bricks were delivered to four sites in conjunction with Habitat Nicaragua´s on-going  home improvement program.
In another trip, team members went to the Adobe factory and put together three mixes which made approximately 250 bricks. Our Global Village co-ordinator Elisa, states that we were "Awesome" and set some sort of record as they had never done three mixes in 45 minutes before.

Question.... What do you make when you add bankers, computer geeks, cops, designers, technicians together?
You make... Friends...  a team... a difference.

Never discount what you can do. The power of one grows... infects... until it moves and shapes. Be the mover, the shaper. Be the difference.