Construction worker for a day!!

Another first time volunteering but this time round it was with The Star's Do Good Volunteer team in collabaration with Habitat for Humanity Malaysia. To be quite honest, i was a little apprehensive at first because I've never done anything like this before, but heyyy, there's always a first time right?! So, after some taught, I decided to join the project and I dragged my good friend Joey along with me heheh. 

Actually, our task was pretty simple. Building and reconstructing homes for the orang asli people. And to be more specific, it was just building one home and reconstructing another. So all together two new homes for two families.

After reaching the venue, which took us about forty five minutes from KL Sentral, we were given a warm welcome by the orang asli community and representatives from Habitat for Humanity Malaysia. We were then briefed of our tasks for the day and also on all the safety precautions while working. Then, it was time to get dirty!! From mixing the cement to laying the bricks and using a wheel barrow for the first time (because it was easier to move the bricks around using a wheel barrow then your hands), I'm proud to say that I've done them all. The sun was scorching, and I forgot to wear sunblock (as usual) and we were all sweating but that did not stop us from continuing our mission - to have completed at least 50% of the houses by the end of the day.

After taking an hour break for lunch, we were back on our feet again. We continued on until around 4.00 pm when it started to rain. Like really really heavy and so heavy that we couldn't continue working because it was just too heavy..sighhh. So what did we do while waiting for the rain to stop? Fill our tummy with come delicious kuih-muih made by the orang asli. Obviously it was delicious beacuse we were all hungry again la..okay no! It really did taste good :)

We didnt  have much time to continue working after it stopped raining as we had to leave. Nevertheless, each and every one of us defifnetely felt a  sense of accomplishement when we managed to hit our taget - 50%  of the houses was completed before the end of the day.Yayyyyyyyy us!

So, after taking a couple of group photos and saying our goodbyes to the orang aslis, we made our way back to Kl Sentral before going our separate ways.

Joey and I were so glad that we took part in this activity. Its nice to spend the weekend doing domething for somebody else instead of the usual, shopping, hanging out with friends, eat sleep and repeat!

Here's a short video I made from the compilation of the pictures we took. Enjoy!