We left San Ramon at 9am this morning after saying goodbye to the families we have been with for 2 weeks. Although we are all excited to be moving onto somewhere new, it was sad to leave them behind knowing we probably wouldn’t see them again. The minibus journey was just over 3 hours to… Continue reading Chalkie Dundee!
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Tour of Volio and a Maccy D’s
Yesterday after the car crash, Marta’s neighbour George came to the rescue and escorted Mum and Dad to the Quinta. We later found out he was actually Marta’s husbands cousin and was also working across the street from us today. This morning we had only been at work about half an hour and he came… Continue reading Tour of Volio and a Maccy D’s
A trip to a Quinta
A few days ago the builder at work (Gerrado) offered to take us to his Quinta in San Lorenzo, we had originally arranged it for this morning and thought we were getting the morning off! However yesterday they changed their minds and decided they wanted us on the building site so we rescheduled for 1pm… Continue reading A trip to a Quinta
Cement overload
Yesterday was really hard work and we didn’t feel overly productive. Today however was great, we basically spent the whole day mixing cement and filling in the trenches around the metal rods. We also had a new guy on site called Jesus who showed us the cement mixing ropes and helped carry the heavy materials.… Continue reading Cement overload
Back to the building site
After a beautiful weekend in La Fortuna I can’t describe how hard it was to get up at 5.45am this morning! We all managed to get up on time and off we went again to the building site. As we arrived on site we saw 2 big mounds of dirt that had started to fall… Continue reading Back to the building site
End of a perfect weekend
We woke this morning to another beautiful day in Costa Rica and made the most of a lay in as tomorrow it’s back to our 5.30 alarms! We met for breakfast and spent a few hours by the pool until check out at 12pm. Our pass to the Tabacon included a free next day pass… Continue reading End of a perfect weekend
Woohoo it’s Friday
Today at work we finished off all the trenches ready for the cement to go in Monday. Sadly it was Nadia and Asma’s last day today and they will be greatly missed. Today was fun, Marvin was much more interactive with us and we all had quite a laugh while we were digging away. I… Continue reading Woohoo it’s Friday
More digging and a fiesta
We got to work the same time again, we are all aching really badly now and it’s such an effort to get up! Our job today was digging, lots of digging. We finished off yesterday’s trench plus 2 more. I actually really enjoyed digging, there’s something quite therapeutic and satisfying about it. At about 10.30am… Continue reading More digging and a fiesta
I hate bricks
We got up the same time as yesterday and arrived on site again at 7.30am. As we arrived a huge lorry of concrete bricks turned up, some small, some medium and some large. They attempted to reverse the lorry into the driveway so that they could unload directly onto the plot but they couldn’t get… Continue reading I hate bricks
To the building site
Yesterday I really did not think I would make it to work but I did feel a bit better this morning and decided I would go and just not eat anything so I didn’t feel bad! We got up at 5.45am, yes 5.45am and met the others at the corner just after 6.30am. Our home… Continue reading To the building site