It is the first step that is troublesome, the early stage of the construction process is somewhat frustrating for all the students because we are not able to do any technical work except digging the ground or transporting bricks. It changed after 3 days, I guess it is our hard work has proofed to the workers that we are capable of handling the task. Some of us upgrade our daily task to the footing of the castle, tree house, and sculptures.
The shortage of tools is still not fixed, so we start to utilize the given tools for all purpose, such as the one below, a hoe can be used as a brick trowel. The most effective way of learning on a site is through observation, whenever we are facing a technical problem or a new task, we would gather everyone to observe how the workers did it. This has largely increased our productivity.
Even we are assigned to the different task, we would help each other and give advice to other groups, this process gives us a full picture of different elements that are simultaneously going.
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