Saturday

Today was our first full day of work. The Plum Creek group handed the baton off to us last night, and spent today at the beach. We started our day by loading their tools onto the bus, then setting up a place to keep our tools. After a brief devotion in the morning, we got to work. I was working on getting the ceiling lights up. For the most part, I was drilling holes in the light fixtures so that we could hang the lights from the ceiling. We got all the light fixtues up and wired on the lower level. Two classrooms, in fact, are completely finished. The kids will begin to use these rooms on Monday. We got all the wall paneling--white vilyn soffet--up in a third room (of five, on the lower level), and started on a fourth. We got all the floor tile down on the lower level. On the upper level (a classroom, a computer lab and a library), we hung most of the track for the drop ceiling, and got some vinyl soffet up in the classroom.
Some of the kids from the school came to see us toward the end of our work day. They really enjoyed seeing our pictures that we had taken, and we let a couple of them take pictures for us. They really enjoyed that.
Some women who are members of the church here cooked us lunch and dinner today. We had spaghetti for lunch and breakfast burritos (eggs, sausage, bacon, and refried beans on a tortilla) for dinner.
We had a very good first day and got a lot done. As the Plum Creek group goes home tomorrow, we will work for a half day, relax in the afternoon and attend church in the evening. I will update you all on that tomorrow. I am tired and am going to bed. Good night.