Working under the sun

Today, we headed to the worksite early in the morning to officially start our Construction for the local villagers. As we arrived, the locals greeted us with a friendly smile.  There were few babies at the working site. They were cute and made us learn how to speak vietnamese language to communicate with them. We brought an electronic dictionary to find few words because we were unable to speak with them even a word yesterday. The local workers who arrived earlier were mostly local  charity workers like us. They were friendly and helpful but we had difficulties in working with them and follow their instructions because not many of them could speak English.  As we were working, the humid weather Made us desperate for water and made critical affect on our working progress. Our clothes were soaked with sweat which made me feel very uncomfortable for the occasion.  Inside the house that we're working for reconstruction, people were focusing on digging holes at the exterior parts of the building. which sounds easy but was infested with plant roots that we had to use a machete in order to cut out the Roots and start digging with our shovels. Others were making cement for the other house directly below the sun. -Tae Wong