Wow ... it was great to see postings from others and that picture was wonderful!! Below is an update from Garry and Ethan. I asked Garry about the hotel internet access, I understood this was slow but he said it's not only slow it also cost extra to use. Not sure how much it's not free or included with the room cost.
It takes the team about 1 1/2 hours to get to the school house from the hotel. The Army truck has to go slow because of the bad roads.
1st Work Day - the school has 6 rooms approximately 20' x 22', they poured concrete in 1 room and ~ 1/4 of another room. The local boys were busy breaking up huge rocks (Garry wasn't sure where these came from) but the local boys were using a sledge hammer to break up the rocks into little pieces and then other locals (even the local ladies with babies (I think Garry said on their backs) were pushing heavy wheel barrows of dirt into the school. Once the floor was leveled out the concrete was poured. The locals carried water in 5 gallon buckets and poured the water into a large black drum, this was used to mix the concrete.
There were 2 local young men that were putting facial boards on the school for the gutters, these 2 men went into the forest cut down 2 trees (~ 12' tall and 3" in diameter), then they nailed some old scrap wood onto the two trees to make a ladder.
Garry said that the local kids loved making the crafts, he said they never used scissors before this was an exciting time for the kids.
Tomorrow the team will only be working 1/2 day and then they will be going to Missions, Garry thought this was about 20 miles away from the school. At Missions the team will be sorting the shoes and giving the shoes to the children.
I will send another update tomorrow after talking with Garry and Ethan.
Rea
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