Wednesday, July 29th - Build Day 2

Another awesome day down. Tiring and hot day though. I'm certainly not used to working in this heat. Another odd meat and vegetable breakfast. Pretty much just lunch sandwiches for breakfast and then again for lunch. We build walls again today -I love it! Minus the doing it wrong alot, haha. We also did some awesome chain transportation of cinder blocks which can be fun (and it works the abs quite nicely).

Dinner was awesome once again. I was pretty worn out though and the heat was getting to me so I didn't enjoy it nearly as much but I got to hear some great stories from some of our group members. Afterwards a few of us wandered to the mall. Which was certainly not what I was expecting, much more modern, huge and fancy than I'd ever expected to find in Poland. We had a nice wander, some got some icecream and I just picked up a few things (chocolate milk- I'll let you know how that goes) at the grocery store. They don't have refrigerated milk...it's all in tetra cartons and not kept cold... really weird.

This evening we had a bit of ping pong playing. I am terrible at it. Absolutely terrible. Which should be interesting as we're supposed to be having a tournament tomorrow evening. Alot of fun though.

I'm really trying to learn the language here, I have discovered how much I love learning new languages. I'm driving the volunteer intern they've got here crazy with my requests for translations though since he's only been here two months there's only so much he can translate for me. Nonetheless I feel I'm getting somewhere. It's really interesting though: I can hear french in the language! We're teaching some of the kids we're working with some English, mainly: "This wall sucks!"

Tonight I'm trying for a later night's sleep cause I"ve been heading to bed around 9ish each evening (completely aware that that's 4pm at home) but then I"m awake and ready to go again at 3am. So we're trying 11 tonight to see if that works better; so off I go!

*Picture is of the walls we've been working on in the upstairs flats of the apartment complex. They're put together with mortar and cinder blocks and will then be plastered over later on.