Bridges Day 1: Last Saturday I went to the San Juan de Miraflores to help build stairs with the bridges club. To be honest I was feeling really excited because this was the first time I was going with bridges. Ive been to that district before with Techo but the experience with Bridges was similar. What I really like about this service projects is that we connect or how the people in bridges call it to make bridges with the local population. We got there and immediately where separated into smaller teams. I was placed in the group in charge of mixing the materials to make the cement.
The task was really hard, in fact this was the first time that I was doing a task like this. We had to take the soil, mix it with the cement and then add water to make the mix work. It lasted 30 minutes to complete the mix and another 30 to send the cement up the mountain to finish constructing the stairs. We were a small group of 5 and I found it really exhausting completing this kind of job but the desire to keep helping motivated me to keep working. There where some times in where the Bridges personal had push me forward but most of the time I was working really hard because I believed on what I was working on.
This was the first service project where I actually bonded with the people in the community. It was not just going in the community to do something, it was actually actually building relationship with the people in the place. Since we finished right on time we had an extra hours to play a match with the little kids. I consider that priceless.
The task was really hard, in fact this was the first time that I was doing a task like this. We had to take the soil, mix it with the cement and then add water to make the mix work. It lasted 30 minutes to complete the mix and another 30 to send the cement up the mountain to finish constructing the stairs. We were a small group of 5 and I found it really exhausting completing this kind of job but the desire to keep helping motivated me to keep working. There where some times in where the Bridges personal had push me forward but most of the time I was working really hard because I believed on what I was working on.
This was the first service project where I actually bonded with the people in the community. It was not just going in the community to do something, it was actually actually building relationship with the people in the place. Since we finished right on time we had an extra hours to play a match with the little kids. I consider that priceless.