Day 3 of Work

Day 3: We had completely cleaned up the entire playground and were ready to start laying the concrete. After a morning of painting/sealing the wood around the soccer field with some local and Bauorden volunteers, me and one volunteer started unloading two pallets of concrete and rebar from the truck while Jessica and a few other people used GPS units to measure the field. As we could go as far as we could go without a concrete mixer, we decided to break for the rest of the day.

Later in the afternoon I went to the municipality and informed my contact that we needed to clean the asphalt in the schoolyard so we could start laying concrete the next day. She then called the fire chief to send up a firetruck. Jessica and I met the firemen at the school. Meanwhile, I got a call from a Bauorden volunteer who had been held up at the Hungarian/Serbian border and came to Kratovo late. I had to hustle down to the bus station, bring the volunteer to his host family's residence, and then get back to the work site. Afterwards, the firemen drove Jessica and I back the center of town in the truck. Even though I'm a 29 year old man, I have to admit that that made my day.