We had been told that a tremendous amount of progress had been made, so I'm not quite sure what we expected when we pulled up to the construction site. There was a big hole in the ground ( I called it "The Tunnel"), and at that point it was very hard for me to picture a school. We were amazed that everything was done by hand, even the mixing of cement...But would this ever really be a school? Stay tuned!
So the April 2007 team arrived, work boots and all. I don't think we had any idea how warm it was going to be! I chose to go in April simply because I didn't want to go in June or August because it's hurricane season. To look at the weather on the internet, it was a bit of a "fooler", unless you noticed that the humidity was usually 85-90%. This made the REAL FEEL temperatures more than 100 degrees. We did very well though and paced ourselves, realizing that we were not used to this heat. We also were fortunate to have our parish nurse (Bettie) on the trip, who was prepared to help us in any kind of an emergency. We had stored a construction saw in the medical trunk, but she assured us that she would not use that saw on any of us! :-)
