A day in the life of team 1

Hello to all of our families, relatives, friends and colleagues back home. Day 14 of the expedition and morale is as high as ever. We have had a couple of days slow work due to having to wait for the concrete ring beam to set. Today we were back to full production and made fantastic progress on the classroom - we are now ready to start erecting the roof. Considering the amount of manual work we have had to do - building the roof trusses, mixing, forming the steel reinforcement for the ring beam, designing and building scaffolding etc then the progress has been remarkable.

The whole team are now fully focused on completing the job and I'm confident we will do it.

As well as the building work there is the challenge of camping in an environment without the amenities we enjoy at home. Once again the team get on with their day to day living with good humour and companionship.

Team 6 are the last team to have their second rest day period tomorrow - a boat safari on lake Baringo then a visit to a spa hotel to use the swimming pool facilities. After this all six teams have one more rest day. I'll sign off now and look forward to seeing my loved ones in a couple of weeks.

Michael Walsh (Team 1)

Hello everybody, Matthew lynch here from team 1. Today was like any normal building day, getting up at 6:30am to start work at 7am, but for team 1 after work started and we were halfway through our 2nd course we were singing and dancing, at 7 foot high on the scaffolds whilst waiting for a cement mix. Although all fun aside we did do 7 courses on the gable end and put down the wall plates for the roof trusses, so a very good job today done by everyone on the build site.

Matthew lynch