By Courtney, Safia, & Jordan B
Today we went to Villa Del Río in Vega Alta again, but this time we worked on Bolo’s home. We continued to make concrete and learned how to make columns. We had a group shoveling materials to make the concrete, a group shoveling the concrete into buckets, “cubos” in Spanish, and a bucket brigade passing the buckets to Angel and other men who filled the columns on the roof. We also had a new job, the bucket catcher, who tossed the empty buckets to the concrete shovelers.
We had the mission to complete the job by lunch time and we were more motivated than ever. We filled and passed our buckets enthusiastically. We had a little set back when we ran out of cement, but we quickly received more and were able to not only finish the columns but help work on another home.
After that, we had a nice chicken and rice lunch at Maria’s and made our way back to the yellow house. We all went to the beach and had fun swimming in the water and playing football. It was a great day.
We finished our night with a pizza dinner and an Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown episode about Puerto Rico and we couldn’t be more excited for our last work day tomorrow.
