The Houses We Built!

This is a video of the build site just after the Carter Work Project was over. The painted houses are the ones the Irish group finished before we got there. He uses some English words, and understanding French helps (hint: 'kai' means 'house'). There is always a post-build crew to finish the houses that didn't get done during the blitz; this video shows those crews throughout the site.

Most importantly, it shows the houses I worked on! At 7.15 of the video, you can see the flags we erected on Remembrance Day in the pile of dirt. The houses to the immediate left and right of the pile of dirt are my houses!

For the first time, I was on the crew that was the furthest ahead the first day. We were very lucky to have a good, hard-working crew that was very focused, and a House Leader who knew how to get the best out of everyone. We didn't get all the windows or doors on by the end of the build, but we did so well on the roofs that we ended up sending the "roof crew" to other houses to help them along.

I'm really proud to have been part of that Remembrance Day ceremony - you'll see the woman at the end still wearing her poppy. That was an amazing experience that helped me appreciate the universality of what we were doing.