Last construction day!

Today was my last construction day and that was such a good feeling!! Don't get me wrong! I do feel like I am making a good difference when I am doing construction I just do not feel like I am making that big of difference of the rising star campus with construction.

For construction we gathered our hats, gloves, and colorful bowls and headed to the sight. The sight was just by the school and was made of dirt and rocks. Our plan was to move the rocks so that it looked better and I think so that the cars were able to park there as well, like another spot there is available for the cars to park.  

So we got there and the first thing we did was start taking rocks to a cute little tractor type of automobile that the workers had. The front had the motor then some me teal rods leading to a foam pad for the seat which was connected to the back carrying all the rocks in which we were putting. After we got all the rocks into the tractor they drove them to the other "parking lot" and dropped them off on the very edge to make it look nice!

As his process was occurring we would fill in the holes by using the dirt we dig would dig up with very different shovles from the U.S. They basically fold in half.

So we did that and tried to level it out as much as we could and stopped because we were tired. 

I got the true ultimate Indian experience today! The group that I have calle the Karyat group wanted to go to the Junction becuase we hadn't gone yet. So we made plans to go with a coordinator and a chaperone. Then more people came back from their oration as the day ended.  The group was slowly getting larger with all of the volunteers and chaperones and coordinators. Then we got talking about transportation, the goal was to walk there and it is about 5 km. this did not float with a lot of the people, especially those who already went so our group decreased again. Then there was a little talk about rickshaws but that was put down so quick I didn't even blink. Then the last obstacle is if we would be back in time for play time! There go 3 more... So here are Amberlee and I and 3 coordinators/ chaperones. So we decide that that is enough to take the bikes! We hop on the bikes have a little ledge on the back, just enough for someone to sit on so I plop down and we are ready to go. This was not a speedy trip we struggled to get going but then all was well on the paved road! I rode with Carson who is the overall Volunteer Manager. It was an interesting experience. 

Once we got to the junction I was super excited to buy my henna for Sudah. We looked around in several places then found the place it was awesome! Then we were off to find Amberlee her chudidar for our Dehli trip coming up VERY soon! We shopped around for a bit she dug through a big stack of them, tried on a few then finally found the best option there was! 

The bikes

A little conscience shop

Junction

With Matthew my chaperone