Day 8: Thursday, January 19, 2006
Today was a very good day for painting the inside of the library as we began applying the final coat on each of the walls.
On one end wall of the building, a mural was begun as Drew sketched out several items in pencil. Several members of the VIM team as well as a couple of the deaf students worked hard on the mural all day long; they made very good progress with painting an elephant, giraffes, trees, a Bible, cross, the sign for “I love you” as well as a banner with “Jesus loves you”, and a child reading. The remainder of the walls had a coat of light blue paint applied (and it will ultimately be the “sky” in the mural).
John worked all day outside with mixing and placing concrete. The front porch was poured and smoothed out; they did a fine job of covering up all of the places where we chiseled out yesterday for the top coat to bond properly.
The glass in the fixed glass windows was all installed by the end of the day. The welder also finished installing all of the metal frames for the upper windows. Tomorrow, the team will need to insert the glass panels (280 of them) as well as paint the frames for the windows.
This afternoon, the women of the team, Phillip, and Alfred went to the Makena Textile Workshop (a woman’s cooperative) where local women make yarn via spinning and the dye it and weave it into rugs of assorted sizes. They also make tie-dyed / batik material and then fabricate it into a host of items from clothing articles to potholders, to small zippered pouches, etc. While the prices seemed way too high, most everyone purchased something to support the good cause. (The beautiful spinning wheels, by the way, were imported from New Zealand.)
Lunch today consisted of chapattis, rice, stew, cooked cabbage salad, lettuce / tomato / carrot salad, and fresh mangos and passion fruit. When the team went back to the library after lunch, many of the deaf students were there wanting to get inside to just look at the mural – they were clearly very excited about seeing it.
Supper tonight was also good: chicken cooked with onions and green peppers, mild vegetable curry, rice, ground maize mixed with water (similar to idli or potella) and fruit salad (complete with mango, banana, passion fruit, and avocado).
The team played “fruit basket turnover” in terms of accommodations switching out who was staying with the Mubichi’s versus at the motel. All seems to be going pretty well.
All were exhausted tonight after a long, but good day’s work.
Submitted by Kellye J
On one end wall of the building, a mural was begun as Drew sketched out several items in pencil. Several members of the VIM team as well as a couple of the deaf students worked hard on the mural all day long; they made very good progress with painting an elephant, giraffes, trees, a Bible, cross, the sign for “I love you” as well as a banner with “Jesus loves you”, and a child reading. The remainder of the walls had a coat of light blue paint applied (and it will ultimately be the “sky” in the mural).
John worked all day outside with mixing and placing concrete. The front porch was poured and smoothed out; they did a fine job of covering up all of the places where we chiseled out yesterday for the top coat to bond properly.
The glass in the fixed glass windows was all installed by the end of the day. The welder also finished installing all of the metal frames for the upper windows. Tomorrow, the team will need to insert the glass panels (280 of them) as well as paint the frames for the windows.
This afternoon, the women of the team, Phillip, and Alfred went to the Makena Textile Workshop (a woman’s cooperative) where local women make yarn via spinning and the dye it and weave it into rugs of assorted sizes. They also make tie-dyed / batik material and then fabricate it into a host of items from clothing articles to potholders, to small zippered pouches, etc. While the prices seemed way too high, most everyone purchased something to support the good cause. (The beautiful spinning wheels, by the way, were imported from New Zealand.)
Lunch today consisted of chapattis, rice, stew, cooked cabbage salad, lettuce / tomato / carrot salad, and fresh mangos and passion fruit. When the team went back to the library after lunch, many of the deaf students were there wanting to get inside to just look at the mural – they were clearly very excited about seeing it.
Supper tonight was also good: chicken cooked with onions and green peppers, mild vegetable curry, rice, ground maize mixed with water (similar to idli or potella) and fruit salad (complete with mango, banana, passion fruit, and avocado).
The team played “fruit basket turnover” in terms of accommodations switching out who was staying with the Mubichi’s versus at the motel. All seems to be going pretty well.
All were exhausted tonight after a long, but good day’s work.
Submitted by Kellye J
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