Day Five - Saturday: Work Day!

Guest post by Joey:

Saturday has been a day of work. From 8am on the school compound was filled with student volunteers – sanding, measuring, sawing, nailing, more sanding, sweeping, laundry, cement-laying, more sanding, gluing, calculating, measuring and then…..some more sanding.

Notice.....Isaac is sanding.....

Charles was out and about working in town and then came back and got right back to keeping an eye on the craftsmen and a strong sense of order, which just emanates from him. And more sanding.....

I am so impressed how hard the students worked- from 8:00-4:00 and all smiles the whole time. I enjoyed watching the students work with each other- the older students teaching the younger students how to saw (and then getting a little frustrated and taking the saw back) The students learned how to layout a design from blueprints that Gabriel (17 year old) and I have been designing since the first day.

It was wonderful working with the tools that were donated. The students were fascinated with the planer and all the saws and shiny new tools- I think every scrap piece of wood had chisel marks and holes in them from the Bit & Brace.

Meanwhile....there was some sanding happening....still.....

I would like to thank Madame Kate and Madame Greenie for sanding all day! Their Biceps are like “hard bodies”- They were singing and sanding and talking with the kids and sanding and making up (sanding) games and sanding and…sanding.

By the way, Ghana won tonight!!!! We celebrated in the pub across from the hotel - the people watching the game couldn't have been happier to have a couple of Americans in the crowd as Ghana beat the US. Lots of hugs, dancing and absolute, unadulterated joy.