the belt

The toughest moment of 2006 was probably the building of the concrete belt between walls and the roof. I had no working team, no time and the money were running out. I've accepted my neighbour's offer - which was quite bad for me. This operation took 4 days. We agreed that the team leader will have the workers and I'll help around. In the first 3 days we've made the encasement and in the forth day we've cast on the concrete. Well, that forth day was special.
At 6:30 AM I was their, ready for fight. I'm very tenacious and I have more than 7 years of hard endurance background athletics. If in the first 3 days I was standing a little bit on the "right" of the road, that day I was in the front line. The team leader didn't bring workers except a 16 years old boy and an old man of about 60 years old. He said that he thought that I would bring a man or two.
Ok...
First thing to do was to climb on the first floor with the 120L concrete mixer.Next was to get the sand over the ground floor.Lots of pails,shovels and barrels. That was hard. We've filled the barrels with water and organized the team. The kid had to go to school at about 12 AM so the old man was mixing the concrete, I was carrying the pail with concrete and the team leader was filling the encasament with the concrete from pails that I've carried. I was very very hard.
All day was cloudy and from time to time was even raining and the clothes got fatter and heavier. A few times I've dropped concrete on my clothes and was even worse.
At a moment the encasement of a pillar had collapsed and the concrete had spread on the yard. I throwed a shovel to get the spreded concrete and unfortunelly it broked.
This operation took about 9 hours and we didn't get a brake at all, except me. At a moment I made coffee for each of us.
With all this for me was a succes.