Day 1 at Santa Elena School

The construction team left the BTC before 8 and drove 30 minutes to the work site.  This is a picture taken of the second floor before we started work.  One or two courses of block had been laid before we began work.

On the ground floor were 450 concrete blocks waiting to be carried the stairs to the second floor.

While several worked on carrying block, others began setting up for laying block, setting up mason twine to keep the walls straight and mixing mortar.  The team began laying block on two then three walls.

After lunch help arrived and more blocks were carried up the stairs, until all 450 were up and ready to be laid.

By 3 in the afternoon, several walls were considerably higher than when we started.  Here is the "after" shot for the day's work.

It was  sunny and hot today. We are looking forward to getting started in the morning and seeing how much higher the walls are tomorrow.