Today we finalized the gum pole foundations which went faster than the day before. The wall plates were also inserted today but that was done by the guys, they just never want us ladies near them.
At the tasks of today I learnt the importance of setting out correctly and always rechecking ones setting out. At the process of inserting the gum poles and wall plates we found that our poles were not in line and many of them were not in the right distance from the wall, thus we had to remove some of the gum poles, re measure and then construct the foundations and insert the gum poles. During the days processes I understood that women still have a long way to go at times. The guys assume that we cannot do many of the things on site, we as the ladies found ourselves without much to do as guys would push us away of just re do everything we did only to end up with the same results. Here again I saw the necessity of team work at creating of system of working in order to work faster and have great results.
Later on in the day we set out the planks which will be used for cladding the platform and stairs at the top of the site. At this exercise it was about learning to first calculate and understand what is needed before setting the materials out and continuing with construction. This process also involved calculating and using the material wisely as not to waste materials. For a project such as ours which was mainly based on sponsorships, great care is needed in the manner in which materials, money and time is spend…thus a good deal of organizing was need from every team on site , which my team managed to do very well today.
UNTIL NEXT TIME...KEEP ON BUILDING!
