Today the hard work and the main reason we came. We awakened at 5:30 am to get ready, for the hard day’s work had begun. We all split up into the teams which had been decided the previous evening, one team was doing the construction of pergola’s, the other team was building benches and the last team was fixing the playground. The day started off well with every team being able to complete a good section of their tasks, the first team having dug three of the eight holes, second team having fixed the monkey bars and the third team had cut the pieces for their picnic tables and had finished making the seats on three of their five tables. We then went to Morning Tea which was delicious.

After morning tea, we continued our work through to lunch. The first team finished digging the first 4 holes and were preparing to cement the poles down. The second team was repairing the tires used as stepping stones, the team on the benches was beginning to put to put their benches together. After this was lunch and we continued working through till the children came home from school and it became impossible to do anymore work.

We then changed out of our work boots and into our trainers ready to play with the kids. We played a mixture of netball and basketball for four hours, whilst others occupied the younger kids by giving them piggy backs. Around 6:00 pm it was dinner time and we had to say goodnight to all of the children and split into the two houses where we were eating dinner. For dinner we had burgers and custard and jelly for dessert.

 By Luka and Jasper