Hello everybody, my name is Jens. I am the other Swedish carpenter. This week’s blog will also reflect what’s going on at the construction site. I will start of, for the ones that might not want to read all of it, with saying that I’m very satisfied with this week’s work. We’ve had a large group of local volunteers every day and the constructing has been moving forward at a steady pace. We started this week with planning a meeting on Sunday night. This is something we do every week with the construction group. The idea with the meeting is to agree on a reasonable goal for the week and have a short discussion about how to reach that. As well, we try to foresee difficulties and issues so that we can prepare for the worst while hoping for the best. In the end we agreed to set a rather high goal for ourselves.
Monday and Tuesday. We needed these first two days of the week to finish the rebar for the floor of con1 (construction one). Making the two nets, one in the bottom of the floor and one in the top, was a bit more time consuming than anticipated. In Europe you’d buy the nets premade and pretty much just lay them out, fix them together with some wire and put distances in between. Here on the other hand you have to make the nets, piece by piece, which means a lot of twining. But I do believe that we learned some do’s and don’ts this time, and that next time will be faster. Parallel with the guys working on the floor rebar there was one group separating the stones from the sand so that we could mix the concrete more accurately. One group preparing the foundation rebar for con2 (construction two). While I was fine tuning and preparing the holes for the foundation of con2.
Wednesday brought, literary speaking, the back braking work of mixing concrete by hand. Most of the volunteers where put on this task. I must say that I’m very impressed of the hard work they put in. We didn’t leave the task for them alone though, many of our volunteers also stood in the mixing pits. We did keep a small group on assembling the rebar pieces for con2 as well as a small group for setting them out. This was to ensure that we would keep advancing on both constructions so that we would not run out of tasks at a later point. 
On Thursday the very nice man with a diesel powered concrete mixer arrived. We all loved him. Or at least his machine. This freed up some more volunteers to work on the rebar for con2 which let us finish all of them. At the same tempo they were coming out of the rebar factory, under the tree in the shade, they were put in to their holes, centered and fixed before getting the bottom part filled with concrete. Even though the lovely yellow machine were thumping away all Thursday long, we didn’t finish the floor because a lot of the concrete was going into the bottom of the feet of con2. This was prioritized so the concrete would be firm enough to work on the molds for the “legs” of the feet on Friday. By Friday lunch we have finished the floor of con1. We’ve also put all five legs on the feet for con2, which means that we barley fell short of the goal that none of us thought was doable.
On that happy note I will say goodbye,Jens
