Women Do the Hard Work

Everyday for the past week we have watched a group of about 10 women carry pail after pail of rocks, gravel and cement on their heads up the hill from where the road to our house becomes a footpath to a construction site in the rice paddies up the trail.  We found out recently they are working for the our neighbor Paul who is building a couple of villas.  He said that when there isn't something to carry they are upset.  I wondered to myself what they are getting paid (probably about $10/day) and think how impossibly hard it looks. We often say hello to them and I want to express what hard work it looks like and how strong they are, but don't know the words and not sure how it would be taken.  Instead I just stand in awe.