
And here’s a completed picture from the front:

Here’s an idea of what the construction looks like from the inside – the bright light you see on the ceiling is where daylight enters the classroom through an installed sheet of translucent lamina. Pretty smaaart ☺

Yep, it’s really starting to look good.

Then I came back a few days later, and whoop – they’d already started painting! (see what I said about kids being everywhere?)


Another picture from the back

and here’s what the inside will look like

A few days afterwards, it was time to pour the floor!

First, you’ve got to mix a bunch of concrete on the ground – for this particular pile I believe the proportion was roughly 5 bags of cement to 20 buckets of gravel to 30 buckets of sand. Then the albañiles (masons) start spreading it out on the classroom floor:

It’s tough work shoveling concrete but we all helped out ☺



The process goes pretty fast though; a couple of hours and we were done!


We’re about 90% done with the school now – next week the herrero will install the windows and doors while the electrician mounts the light mixtures. Just a little more than two weeks until the inauguration!
I ESPECIALLY like the photo of you with the scarf under your hat! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd now you've got a floor! Hope the gravel underneath was smooth, so
that cracks don't occur! How am I ever going to play jacks on a floor if the jacks fall into the cracks! :)
Momma