Trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand 2011! [Construction]

January 1, 2012
by Operation Orion

Hello everyone!

On 7 Dec 2011, after months of planning and fund-raising efforts, the overseas team finally went on the long-awaited trip to Thailand!

Here are some of the things we did for our OCIP 🙂

Mud Brick House construction

The whole purpose of our trip is the mud brick house! Here’s how we helped build it:

Mixing mortar aka "doing the mortar dance"

moving bricks — Moving bricks. Each brick was about 10 kg

: Building in progress…

: The half-done mud brick house

under construction3 — Almost done! (except for some painting)

And here’s what happens when we have breaks…

whennotlooking...3 — OOOMMMMGGG LOOK AT THIS!

And that’s basically a very summarized version of how construction went. It was really fun, though we were sometimes covered in mud 🙂 The mud brick house took about 10 days to complete. It wasn’t technically a “house” though, it was meant to be an agricultural learning centre 😛