Habitat for Humanity-Day Four!!

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Day four on the building site was much the same as the previous day was. What really changed was afterwards. The mayor of Beius invited us to a barbeque at his place!!

The house at the end of Day four!

There was only one slight problem with this idea though; the weather. It had been pouring rain since about ten in the morning. But everyone was glad to see more of Beius so we all put on our raincoats and piled into buses.

My friend and me getting ready to go to the BBQ

To be honest the food was pretty much the same as it was the past three days but the BBQ was still really fun. The families that we were building the houses for came as well and after about an hour, the rain stopped. For some odd reason there was also a DJ there and a bonfire too, so we ended up having like a mini rave around this huge bonfire!!

All in all it was a really fun day, and the BBQ was a chance for everyone to get to know our families and our teams even better!!

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Habitat for Humanity-Day Three!

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So on to day three of Habitat. This is where the building became fun for me! My team and I had done most of the heavy lifting the past two days so now we had to get started on the plastering and 'raising the roof'.

House at the start of Day three!

The whole team was at the house on the third day which was such a blast because before then everyone was scattered doing odd jobs here and there. This is when we started to have the craic with everyone, including the Americans. 

I really should stop trying to seductively pose in front of cameras. It never seems to work out!

This was the day where all the wood, nails and cement started to really look like a house. You could see it in the family's faces that they were starting to get really excited. All in all I really enjoyed day three!!

See you guys soon Xx

P.S. I'm really sorry guys but I couldn't find the link for the dress that was on my last OOTD! 

Habitat for Humanity-Day 2

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I think it's about time for my to write about my second day on Habitat for Humanity. If you're not sure what Habitat for Humanity is you can read my post HERE and you can also read about my first day in Romania HERE.

Thankfully the second day wasn't as hot as the first day. There was even a thunder and lightning storm in the evening! We had managed to get the four walls up and our aim for the end of the day was to get all the roof tresses up.

I was working on the roof tresses and believe when I say that I have never hammered so many nail in my entire life!! Like I had blisters within blisters. The thing is though, I didn't even notice how tired and that I even had blisters until I was on the bus going back to the dorms.

Me trying to seductively pose in front of camera.

We all had dinner in a big banquet room. And then because none of us had eaten any of the dinner we all the went to the Lidl and bought every single sugary food there.

The second day was just as good as the first, better actually because we all weren't melting with the heat and I actually began to have fun!

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Habitat for Humanity-Day 1

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Gosh it's been some time hasn't it? Over a week now. I've missed you so much, I felt so lost without putting my fingers on a keyboard all day. But I'm here and now I'm back with a vengeance!! For those of you who don't know where I have been all week I wrote a big long post which you can see HERE

I though I would right about my trip day by day and then post them everyone once in a while just so you guys wont get bored of the same ol' thing.

Because the big group of us had travelled through three countries the day before, we were all pretty damn tired going to the building site on Monday. Especially because it was over thirty degrees and if you guys know me at all, you know that I do not do well with heat.

This was the sight we saw when we arrived at the site. Just ten solid slabs of concrete. It was then that it hit me that this group of teenagers were going to have to build homes for people in just five days. All that was running through my head was 'who was stupid enough to think that this was a good idea?' I say the most work any of us have ever done was emptying the dishwasher.

There were a group of Americans staying for the week to help us out and they were exactly what we needed. They were so cheery that they really got us pumped.

All of us on the first day collectively thinking how the hell are we gonna be doing this.

For the first two days I was working on the trusses, which are these triangle-y things for the roofs of all the house. It was hard work especially because it was soooo HOT. Practically everyone there was Irish and Irish people just aren't built for weather any hotter the twenty degrees. But I have to say, that even though I sweated enough water for a swimming pool, I was really proud of the work I did and some of the houses even had roofs up by the end of the day!

We may have gotten a little thirsty throughout the day.

By the end of the day I was dead on my feet and like a zombie walking back to our dorms. There was a race to the showers though and boy do girls know how to run when they realize there were only ten showers for about fifty of us!

The thing was though, that even though I was knackered, I was really pumped to build again tomorrow. I met the family that we were building the house for and they were just so nice and made me feel so humbled. I realised that we weren't just building a house for them, they were getting a new life for themselves and there son. For the first time in my life I felt like I was contributing and putting some good into a person's life and that was probably one of the best feelings in the world.

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Habitat For Humanity

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On the 23rd of June I will be going off to Romania to build a house for a week. I'm doing this with a charity called Habitat for Humanity. Habitat provide low cost housing to people all over the world. They keep the housing low cost by having volunteers help build the houses and that's where I come in.

For ten years now my school has gone all over the place with Habitat and built houses for familes who wouldn't of been able to afford one without their help. As part of my school's tenth anniversary with Habitat, there are gonna be 250 of us going over to build ten houses in Romania. The group of houses are going to be called the Wesley Way after my school.

Over the past year I have raised over €1500 for this trip and I am really looking forward to building a home for a family that really deserves it. Because I am going away for a week with no wifi, it does mean that from the 23rd to the end of June there will be no blog post but I hope you guys can understand.

 I will have a huge blogpost about what I got up too when I get back and I might be able to tweet and instagram a few picks so make sure that you guys follow me on those so I can keep you up to date. If you guys wanna know more about what Habitat for Humanity is you can find out HERE

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