Habitat for Humanity
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Habitat for Humanity
Global Village Team 3412
Dunavarsany, Hungary
Led by John H. Grimesey
and Debra Bertolini
Other names bestowed on the team.
"The Hungarian Beer-Drinking, Sleep Deprivation, Work Camp" and "THE GREATEST TEAM THERE EVER WAS"
By John H. Grimesey-Hog's Breath Bartender for 12 years. |
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John Grimesey, Hog's Breath bartender, mugs it up with Habitat for Humanity of Dunavarsany worker and friend Feri at the traditional family day celebration marking the halfway point of the Key West team's two week build. |
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John Grimesey of Hog's Breath (foreground with back to camera) works Texas team members to erect walls on day 5 of their two week build. |
Habitat for Humanity Global Village Team 3412 is just winding down Day 5 and already our build can be considered rather eventful. Some of these events have been easily predictable for my wife Debbie and me since this is actually our sixth build in Hungary, but others have caught even us by surprise. We've been actually working for three days (Day one is arrival day and Day 2 is sightseeing). Very predictably, the team started out fast. What is surprising however, is the results. Today we stood up walls for an entire 4 unit building and have started building walls for the other building containing 3 units. At this rate, on Saturday we will have a crane out to set roof trusses for both buildings. Since we arrived to naked concrete slabs, that means we will have completed the framing of 7 homes in ONE WEEK!
Now before I get carried away, I should make note of all the help we've had. Aside from our 9 person team, there is an amazingly hard working team from the 1st Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth, TX. By lunch tomorrow, they will have built all 68 roof trusses. They do cheat however, by not drinking. Our team, mostly Key Westers with family and friends, quite often works while fighting off rather nasty hangovers.
We've also had great help from the families who will be living in these new homes. They are all required to put in 1000 hours on their own homes and these folks are well on their way.
We also work with about 3 or 4 hired framers (they often have hangovers as well), but most of this work is being done by untrained grunts like myself.
