Today I woke up so sore from yesterday's FMB work. My forearms hurt the most from wheelbarrowing all the bricks. So after the morning meeting and breakfast I was on FMB again, so I headed over there and for about 3 hours, I broke down pallets.
Breaking down pallets is an exhausting process. First you have to move two concrete cylinders into position on the ground. Then you set the pallet in between the cylinders. Then you take a long wooden plank and slide it through the pallet and put the ends of the wooden plank on the cylinders. Then you get a thick plank of wood and put it underneath the other side of the pallet. Then you get a small wooden block and place it between two of the panels of the pallet. Finally, you take the big-ass sledgehammer, like a boss, and swing with all your might and hit the block which should separate the planks from the crossbars of the pallet. I did about 4 pallets, and they went pretty fast, until I started getting to the stronger, newer, pallets. These took about 20 or so times to even loosen up. At this point I started feeling dizzy, so from 11 to noon, I denailed some panels.
After lunch, I realized I didn't feel very well, so for the rest of the day I made a lesson plan for the English class. It was really fun, I made up a three page word document of games to teach English.
Later that day I got to go to San Andres, a big fishing town about 10 minutes away, to teach a small group of fisherman. They were so friendly and willing to learn. We went over verbs with them: past vs present tense. We also worked on pronunciation and we tried to get them to form sentences. Finally, we played charades, where we took turns acting out verbs and they had to guess the verb in English.
After teaching, we went back to PSF HQ and had dinner then went to bed. :)
I'm so proud of you. Teaching english to them. What a rewarding job for you. I love you.
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