Weeks 9-12 Nearly ready to start the real work
I've been busy the last few weeks and haven't updated the blog. I've had an assignment due, an exam, a week back in New Zealand, and the odd rugby international to watch. Sunset across the Funafuti Atoll But now we're almost ready to start the real work, which is the reason we're in Tuvalu. We've finished inspecting and repairing fifty potholes in the runway. This work amounted to nearly 400 square metres of temporary resurfacing placed, screeded and compacted by hand. Most of the work involved afternoon and night due to the planes leaving around 1 pm. Often, we would have our break around 6:30 pm to coincide with the 15-minute devotion time break at 6:45pm, but sometimes, we planned to finish around 8 pm and would work through without a dinner break. This meant a stoppage at 6:45 pm, machines turned off and lights out. On the last evening of repairs, I recorded the local boys singing . Devotion time on the runway With the potholes finished, we turned our atten...