TUESDAY JUNE 13, 2006
On Saturday afternoon, we visited the tsunami site. For allt he damage we saw, the amazing thing is that there were zero casualties. The houses that were ravaged by waves reaching 30 feet high at the peak of their crescent were shoddily built.
The restoration site was amazing given that there were 180 huoses build in only 9 months. I don't know if any of them were occupied yet, but there were very nice houses, even if some of them were pink. It reminded me of a little retirement villa in Miami. For the most part, there's very little living in Toronto, that can be experienced that could even compare to losing a house in the tsunami. Even if one is lost, insurance covers most of the damage anyway.
We're down to 3 days of work left - today was moving rocks and then bricks. A. Lot. Of. Bricks. Some 2000 bricks. It's really boring, but I'd rather do that than mix concrete.
The idea to move the bricks from the pile to the house by tossing them along a line of 6 volunteers, then repeating the process at the half-way mark seemed like a good one at hte time. Then again, so did communism. When Ross, who pitched the idea, called it "assinine" we realized we had to stop. Turns out, it was only 60% as efficient as carrying the bricks in a bucket, but the fun we had tossing those bricks: priceless.
On Saturday afternoon, we visited the tsunami site. For allt he damage we saw, the amazing thing is that there were zero casualties. The houses that were ravaged by waves reaching 30 feet high at the peak of their crescent were shoddily built.
The restoration site was amazing given that there were 180 huoses build in only 9 months. I don't know if any of them were occupied yet, but there were very nice houses, even if some of them were pink. It reminded me of a little retirement villa in Miami. For the most part, there's very little living in Toronto, that can be experienced that could even compare to losing a house in the tsunami. Even if one is lost, insurance covers most of the damage anyway.
We're down to 3 days of work left - today was moving rocks and then bricks. A. Lot. Of. Bricks. Some 2000 bricks. It's really boring, but I'd rather do that than mix concrete.
The idea to move the bricks from the pile to the house by tossing them along a line of 6 volunteers, then repeating the process at the half-way mark seemed like a good one at hte time. Then again, so did communism. When Ross, who pitched the idea, called it "assinine" we realized we had to stop. Turns out, it was only 60% as efficient as carrying the bricks in a bucket, but the fun we had tossing those bricks: priceless.
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