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The house as it stood on Saturday
morning. |
| Etoke places the last cross-beam on
the roof of the house. Etoke could drive a five inch nail into a
wooden beam with eight or nine strokes. Dave and I tried all
afternoon and each managed to get only one in straight - using about
fifty strokes! |
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Dave and Etoke pause for a picture. |
| Seeing as Dave and I couldn't drive
a five inch nail straight to save our lives, we relegated ourselves to
sawing. Sawing while balancing on a 2x4 is a lot harder than it
looks... |
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...but we both got the hang of it soon enough! |
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Here, the local children are trying
to teach Mike how to use his hands to make a hollow whistling sound -
they had lots of fun watching him try and he was a very good sport
about it.
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Etoke uses a large pair of shears
to cut the currogated in to the proper length. |
| As
the weather turns sour, the roofing team struggles to get the house as
covered as possible! |
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Luke let the children listen to his
walkman - something the enjoyed a great deal! |
| After climbing rocks a few days
before, I figured the next logical step was a tree :-) |
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On
the way home, we stopped by the saturday market where clothes, food and
drinks are sold. |
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the market, this old man explained to me (through a translater) that
his house was 'trying to kill' him as it crumbled and asked me when
Habitat would come and fix his house. |
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Traditional
African dancers performing for us - it was an amazing show! |