Thanks to a herculian effort by all the children yesterday , it loo
ks like our original estimate of 5 weekends was way over the top.
Once they got started and the track started to take shape , the children didn’t want to stop.
All the younger children worked hard gathering up loose stones and leveling the track.
Tai was entrusted with the job of shaping points on short bamboo stakes to hold the track marking poles in place.
All the children wanted to have a go at banging the stakes in and managed very well in places where the ground was softest; using wooden sticks as hammers when I refused to allow them to weild the heavy metal lump hammer that myself and Tai used later to bang the stakes in until they were firm.
Even working lat in the afternoon the heat was quite intense and I tried calling a halt to the work after a little over an hour.
But the children would have none of it, not wanting to stop until the whole track had at least been laid out.
Well done kids, to say I am proud of you is an understatement!
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