Another beauty

As we walked to the bus at day's end, this young girl wished us, "Nameste" and was happy to pose.

Special evening for Paterson

The room was full with about 150 volunteers attending. Thursday evening was the "Appreciation Dinner", recognizing more than a dozen countries who had sent volunteers for Everest Build III. Also being honored were what are called the "affiliate " teams, such as Paterson. 

As at any dinner, we were treated by speeches. Aruna Paul, Habitat Nepal, spoke first, followed by Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat International who had flown in the day before from Americus, Georgia. Reckford welcomed all and announced the just released impressive achievement, that Habitat has completed one million homes worldwide.

Dinner was typical Nepalese, toned down somewhat for palettes unfamiliar with foreign spices.

Nancy and James accepted Paterson's recognition honor and award from Reckforf (center).

Informal pix of the evening....

Thursday on the worksite

'We have a recognition dinner this evening and our complete team has been invited. We represent Paterson Habitat, who will be honored for their support of Habitat Nepal. During the day we continued so-called "bamboozal" work of cleaning, stripping and cutting bamboo for weaving the house walls. Homeowner husband was working alongside. 

Photo: Jean, Homeowner, local Nepali volunteer on site for the week, and Rich.

Plastering instruction from an attractive and professional plasterer at our house #26. Photo from Habitat's Facebook page.

Scenes from a day on the job site...

On the bus....

Traffic ahead...

Hump day on Wednesday

Manny was appointed "house " leader due to construction experience and work on many past Habitat Builds. With a jovial attitude, he is friend to all and has managed the work flow and kept supply and materials on hand. He even diverted a truck load of sand to our site today.

At dinner he related how he originally got involved with Habitat. After the tsunami in 2004, his young son Tommy wanted to help the hundreds of people affected. Manny said he would send money. Tommy said, "Dad, anyone can write a check." The rest is history as Manny went to Sri Lanka two months later. 

This a story like this for everyone here.

With the sand arrival, we began sifting through Doug and Mary's standup screen. Mix sand 4 parts, 1 part concrete and add water. The mix is difficult to apply and our plasterers are going through a learning curve, getting it to stick and make a smooth application.

First step is that Mary applies the wet slurry, a mix of concrete and water, to prep the bamboo panels.

Jason shows how the next step is done. Let the plastering begin....

Meanwhile, more bamboo cleaning, measuring and weaving and David keeping the knives sharpened.

Habitat Nepal website post...

Three friends

A rare moment, captured when the ladies were unaware of the camera. They loved seeing this pix when shown to them on the LCD screen.

Showing the photo.