Woohoo!! Summer is here at last and it has certainly kicked off with a bang! Under a new law recently instated in Hong Kong, I'd have to go back every three years or face losing my full residence. Imagine being discriminated back in China! Any excuse for a holiday back there is fine by me!
It all works out cheaper if I were to fly from London instead of Manchester so that could only mean a crazy weekend with F0bking in the capital city!
Spent five days back there and had a nice chilled out time before jetting back to London and a coach back to Liverpool for my Summer job creating statistical models for water companies. Been in work for a week, it was challenging but a lot of fun and rewarding at the same time. With university on the pause for the next three months, it means that I get a lot more time to myself so I decided to return to the Habitat for Humanity project. The house have certainly progressed a lot while I was away! Now the roof tiles are all laid, majority of the outer walls were done and the inside walls were close to completion. Its amazing to see a home finally taking shape.
Under Tigzy's order, heres a little description of the house: The project is based on land donated by a Church Parish in
Toxteth area (quite an infamous area in Liverpool for its ethnic
population and race riot in the early 70s). The project is essentially
aim to assist young people in the area to move from government housing
and work towards owning a property of their own. This set basically
consists of three houses. The one of the left will be occupied by a young African, a
single mother and her 10 yrs old kid will move into the middle one
while the one on the right will be taken up by a Caribbean couple. To
reduce on the cost and skills required, the whole house minus the
foundation is made out of wood. The main critical load bearing
structures were erected under professionally supervision while the rest
of the house were fitted by volunteers led by a contract manager. The
people who will be owning these property will be buying them at a
reduced rate but have to contribute towards "sweat equity". This means
they will be directly contributing towards project by working on site
to help with the construction. Its sweet to be working with the people
who will be moving in and hearing about what they have planned for
their house and their hopes and dreams for the future.
Its a
shame I joined the project relatively late and hence couldn't see it
from start to finish but there are more projects on the horizon so I
might yet get to complete a full course of construction.
With a nice job to keep my occupied (and financed) through the summer, four festivals to go and this house to help build, I reckon this could possibly be the most stunning summer I have had yet!
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