Last week of work

As the team has been working so marvellously well over the last couple of weeks, we managed to finish the last part of the concrete floor on the Tuesday.  This meant that we were far ahead of schedule.  Furthermore, on the south side of the school we had at the time already put the blocks up to window level, which was work that we had “stolen” from the second group.  This took us even further ahead of schedule.  In order to find enough tasks for the last couple of days we decided to steal more work from the second team.  We built the foundations for the east veranda and put blocks up around the whole building.  It is now not much blockwork left and the remaining part requires scaffolding, which for the second group will be a much slower process as there is limited length of scaffolding available on site.  Last week also had a few days with early finishes due to low workload.

The Friday was supposed to be the last day on site.  No work was planned but we had a few farewell sessions, listened to a few speeches from the chef and the school director and finally rounded the day off by playing a football game against a local team.  First we were supposed to play a friendly game against the teachers but as almost none of the teachers could or wanted to play, the director found new (and better) players to play for him.  The Mozambiqueans were individually better football players than us but they turned up without shoes and were not very well organised on the pitch.  This took the match to into our favour and it finally ended 1-1 after they had equalised our lead by a give-away goal that didn’t even look like a chance.