The fully assembled wheelbarrow couldn’t fit in the cab, so we bought one in pieces, and assembled it ourselves. unlike Ikea,,, it came with no directions… so we found another one at the elementary school & reverse-engineered this thing together. Ha ha. We take pride in the little things here…

We had about 3 ½ hours to give before we had to get home & study,,, so we threw ourselves into one project: clearing one room.

Progress, even measured in little steps, is pretty rewarding when you can look back at the end of the day & see what you’ve accomplished. We didn’t build them a new house,,, but with 4 of us working- we got as much done in one afternoon as they probably would have gotten done over 3 weeks…

We shoveled & shuttled rubble from the back to the front, along the side of the road.
I have heard local price gouging has increased the price of bricks to 350 Rupiah each (from 110 Rp two months ago). Salvaging bricks makes a lot of sense when you think about that… I wasn’t counting, but from the stack of re-usable bricks we separated & stacked, we maybe saved them $100, which is at least half a month’s salary.