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The team get to work

We came, we saw, we sanded

Posted By ralfma on November 17th, 2009
Filed In: Bupa Ecuador Challenge 2009

Day two and the work has begun in earnest.
David and I spend the day sanding, sanding and sanding.  After breaking one of the sanders we still carried on and sanded the mainstays for the central portico in the health centre. See the photo of Dave sanding (since he’s a maintenance man with care homes, he knows what he’s doing so I just stayed close to him).  Another photo is me sanding getting helpful instruction from V (from Aus) who is just as mad as me.
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Hola from Equador

Posted By David Smith on November 17th, 2009
Filed In: Bupa Ecuador Challenge 2009

Hi all had a long and tedious trip 19 hours traveling and some of the volunteers even longer but we all arrived safely. as you can see from yesterday Blog photo´s   you all think that we are on holiday, this is due to BUPA´s wisdom and making us all to acclimatize, we all argued and said we wanted to work but was over ruled. up early today Tuesday and went straight to work myself and Mark have been sanding down wooden posts in preparation for varnishing [...]

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