During lunch on day 2 of our week, we were joined by the Vice President of the Pelican Park Homeowner's Association, John Bailey. He has lived in Pelican Park for only 9 months, but has such a passion for what they are trying to accomplish: no drugs, no gangs, no chickens :).
He was kind enough to spend his entire lunch answering our questions. We continued to build relationships that we may not have expected, but have been incredible all the same. By the end of the day we had our dugha routine down pat, our brick lines were running like a well oiled machine and our bagging as smooth as a baby's bottom.
On Wednesday, day 3 of our build, we arrived to find that the builders had completed the exterior walls and had started building the interior walls in the end unit, which belongs to Wayne, who was working on another site for the week. The builders needed more interior bricks, called 90's. Those are our favorite because they are the lightest. The 190's were for separating the houses, which we filled in with dirt, debris and dried dugha to help provide soundproofing and fireproofing.
During the course of the day, we took aside one homeowner, Deborah and went inside her house. The interior walls had yet to be built, but the one interior wall was only halfway built. We told her about how back in Longmont when we build a house, we sign the studs and write prayers and words of encouragment for the families. Since there aren't any studs in her house, we wrote prayers on paper, read them to Deborah and placed them inside the brick wall of her house. Later, we were told by our crew leader Glen that he had never seen anyone do that before and that it was such a powerful thing to see. We hope that they will carry on with this newfound tradition in the future.
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