Bodyguards

So far i've built 3 houses with supervision. Next week Todd (the other new guy) and I build together and then....I'm on my own.

My last build was with some local 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Our main problem was that they all needed ladders. It was certainly a challenging weekend. One of the staff memebers who was training me kept saying, " It's all down hill here from here...". I still maintain that there is a special place in Heaven for middle school teachers. Although they could probably survive hell. I'll stick with the cute little kids or the ones on their way out of high school.

One boy was trying to get down from the roof(techo)was going to jump down and asked me to catch him. He was no small 7th grader. I now remember why the first time I taught grade 7 and 8 I wondered what had happened to their brains.

Actually the kids were great, I didn't hear any complaints from them and they basically worked hard the whole time. I went to their school for "Veggie Assembly" on Thursday, they are a neat bunch of kids.

The other interesting things was that we had body guards with us the whole time. Most of students were Mexicans who go to school in the US. Some were from such important families that they needed bodyguards. An intersting experience. Everywhere we went was a big ordeal. For the most part the bodyguards stood around and did their job but, after my "How to do stucco" demonstration, they came over and re-did my demo. We all learned alot. The local mexicans sure put our stuccoing to shame.

Still having lots of fun.