Habitat for Humanity, Batam Indonesia

As I have mentioned, I was in Batam for community services. Though, this was my 2nd time in Batam for the Habitat for Humanity Project, i pretty enjoy the experienced especially the one that I just went.

The session was pretty interesting and different. On Friday, we were assisting to build the house of a fellow priest. And the interesting part was that, there was like 16 of us at the same work site building the house. Though the numbers was big, there was a mountain of tasks for us to accomplish.

The most challenging task for the 10 -12 of us, of both sexes, were the digging of the septic tank, 1.4m deep by 1.4m wide, and the leveling of the ground. The whole group of diggers, equipped only with shovels and spade, had a tough task ahead of us. Nevertheless, we all had a system in place as we progress with our work and manage to complete the tasks required.

To end off, i enjoy the service trip and made a lot of friends with Dothi, Vince, Alvin, Tony, Dan, Egna and many more.

To the home owners of the families that we have assisted, I hope you guys will enjoy your new home and may god bless you guys with health and happiness

Thank goodness for our fellow colleagues from India, NZ and Europe. Why do i say that? Got a colleague from India who owns a grape farm and he use to toil in the farm, our colleagues from NZ and Europe who use to scrape the snow of the walk during winter. Their digging expertise assisted u to accomplish the werkz well.

At the resort, I had the room to myself... Wow.... Rsn being so as my room mate came with his wife and thus he has booked another room together.

One thing, i learnt is that Christians in Batam goes for Sat am service i/o of Sunday.