{"id":5387,"date":"2011-09-16T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","slug":"the-brick-factory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5387","title":{"rendered":"The Brick Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been an exhausting week &#8211; Melissa and I have been tag-teaming OMS orientation this week.\u00a0 Melissa went to Greenwood on Tuesday and Thursday and I went Monday and Wednesday and will go again tomorrow to catch the tail end.\u00a0 So I only put in two days at the school, and that feels REALLY weird.\u00a0 I simply do not like being out of the classroom.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not just because you never know what kind of damage might occur under a substitute&#8217;s watch &#8230; I think I honestly miss those kids when I am not there. So I am exhausted, and haven&#8217;t had the chance to process orientation yet, but I still wanted to update things here, so I am just going to post the pictures from the brick factory I promised last time:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiaQjraJwDECG73sqOhBzM56needV77ViSkd39dWWLfUbD8tRX4usuheW5A1CCWiJwV6Bdq0CJ-cBrcnfEbKPV0xnl4Ahdc4DMfrYkrMtl-dZkW0kYbL36yX1aTx06OPI1Z4GcT9tRqj3Q\/s640\/Haiti+July+2011+010.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This place was quite the production.\u00a0 The man up high shapes the clay on the wheel while the guy down low supplies the spin.\u00a0 They had three partners like this going simultaneously.\u00a0Their creations were functional and basic &#8211; mostly water jugs and bricks.\u00a0 The jugs on the floor are starting the drying process before they can be fired.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiSfkSAwE3hc_mC2hkMu2tOgQ6PRPy9f6kdPsPJMGILJcPHPo1x3JLcqdGk3YSYyNaFJJgud38q67M1LuEW-eZ0BkwmWSs7av3WcKfoBKykdkvukOX700co6blC6K6Y8e45DqWQfnEYaU4\/s400\/Haiti+July+2011+012.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jane, Melissa and the kids listen attentively to the owner of the factory &#8211; who was quite happy to explain the process once Jane mentioned how regularly she might be able to bring paying customers from the mission.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhaPJWv_apo-88rJVOKahrIxCMC3ri7ANWhdDCcO3UxcpyiOslp8Bfc27AFnZcmKtnHf13Rhi2RTeqJFTAfjGgIcG24ZN0IEarooWu2gGGzu3O8m5vVmJF3WvxUImE4KYbYL60WScO-REY\/s640\/Haiti+July+2011+014.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjWfaxuA_C15VCb6TCeruD4iLI5Nr3oLYY6Qzd1HxSXW6JraXpkKKjMAJSZ-_mUe8GJvB6ZVaAT1qXIRgctfP3ei4GzEttCXZAySRyIhtZaBDe7-g-DqHqICyJGvS7p16iS13OEqP99Stg\/s640\/Haiti+July+2011+018.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is the owner.\u00a0 There&#039;s a lot of character on this man&#039;s face, isn&#039;t there?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These guys dig up the clay, stomp it (literally) into the right consistency, throw the pots, let them dry and then fire them in a huge furnace in the center of the grounds.\u00a0 The fire burns for three weeks and then the pottery cools for another week before it can be removed and put up for sale. I don&#8217;t have the energy to do justice to this man&#8217;s business tonight.\u00a0 It was incredible.\u00a0 When you come to Haiti to visit us in a year or two, we&#8217;ll have to take you there ourselves.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an exhausting week &#8211; Melissa and I have been tag-teaming OMS orientation this week.\u00a0 Melissa went to Greenwood on Tuesday and Thursday and I went Monday and Wednesday and will go again tomorrow to catch the tail end.\u00a0 So I only put in two days at the school, and that feels REALLY weird.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5388,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions\/5388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}