Thursday, October 14, 2010

Day 4:Site Works and Sponsorship

The morning was spent acquiring materials from Kliptown from a benevolent hardware store owner who was kind enough to give us 5 cubes of pre-mix as well as all his broken bags of cement to cast a foundation.





Using a truck from the community we transported the cement and stored it in Mapara's tavern.



For the rest of the day we continued to clean the rubbish from the site and try to level a platform beneath the postboxes well as flattening the soil above the toilets.




We had detailed discussions about how to cast the foundations and whether or not we needed brick piers in the northern wall. We came to the conclusion that we needed an engineer legally.








After a long day we went to see a flushing toilet and paving detail in one of the houses while we waited for some bricks to be delivered by a friendly helpful class mate.




We sat and watched the sunset with our backs to the southern post box and experienced the dusk activities around the postboxes. The atmosphere was definitely 'chilled', with one lady sells boerewors from a cooler box in the street while small children play in the dirt and the young guys survey the streets for pretty girls.

The view to Nancefield is bustling with people returning home from work.