Doing what we can…

We do what we can but without a little cooperation I cannot produce miracles.

The truck broke down yesterday, today we had a poor turn out on site, and we have not bought enough grass for the roof…

I keep thinking of ways to save time and build faster but without Linakane supporting us, Ntate Sello and I cannot work, and without the workers showing up we cannot continue, but even if they had today, we could not have done much, without a truck we cannot complete the fill for the two missing slabs!

We cannot relly on one truck and a contractor that does not sort out the problems when they occur, so if by 12pm tomorrow he hasn’t done his job I’ll do it for him! I’ll just hire 2 trucks and expense him! This situation cannot continue like this.

But in the mean time we do what we can, Ntate Sello has started to cast the ring beam on block A and I have asked him that as soon as that is finished to start the roof in the round section that has a slab. The plastering has continued at a good rhythm, and is looking good (only one window that I had to ask to be redone as the mix that was used seemed to be too strong and it has cracked up, or maybe t was an end of the day job, when they just tried to save some time and added water to a dry mix), but we need to sort out the other issues if we are ever to complete this any time soon!

A boy (16-17 I guess) has now been employed on site, he works as hard as the rest of the men, he had originally come to replace his father whilst he was sick and now been given a job. A nice gesture and double example of doing what we can.