A day of work.

No medical camps today, so we sorted the leftovers from the medical camps and the construction crew finished up what projects they could get done.

I stayed around to help at the center. First, I was able to Skype Donna and Brianna and take them on a tour of the center. Then I worked for the boys, Nathaniel's bed needed to be taken apart and moved to his room in the new addition, then Brenny had a new loft bed that needed to be put together. I got Nathaniel's bed taken down, after sending out for an allen wrench needed to get it apart. Got it moved out of his old room and hauled up a narrow flight of stairs to his new room.

Then I took a look at the loft bed. Lots of pieces, NO instructions. OK, I know what I am doing, I can figure this out. Took the pieces up to the room, spread them out. Something is wrong here, this isn't going to work. Talked to Tim, he said "No problem, the guy who sold it to us said he would put it together, he'll be right here, you can help him".

The guy shows up, knows very little English, and I have no interpreter. He looks around, says "more". I think I brought everything up, but head downstairs and, sure enough, there are a whole bunch of more pieces. Lug them up, we start assembling. All the predrilled holes are right, except one. And it is about a hole and a half off. We needed to make a slotted hole out of a round one. It's hard to cut metal with wood bits or masonry bits. We eventually got it to almost work.

Got the bed together, thanked the gentleman, took off. Was tracked down, "you need to help him assemble metal shelving units". Oh, OK, remembered hauling them up early in the day. He may not have thought I knew what I was doing till I grabbed a tape measure to measure the diagonal to check the squareness of the unit. After that, we got along great and got both units put together.

I was also doing John and my laundry at the center. No need for dryers when you have a rooftop laundry line, a nice breeze and 90 degree temps. Haven't had air-dried clothes for a long time. Now, the second load of laundry was whites, you can guess what goes into that load. I couldn't find them, the was empty, there were no whites on the rooftop. Finally found them, hanging on the wall of the front porch, where everybody walks by.

Headed back to the hotel to work on stuff I have coming up next week. Have a full day of Excel teaching, so need to get that put together. Have had emails from the people we are meeting with, so looks like we are lined up for everything.

Tomorrow is chuch and some shopping, Monday sightseeing for the main group, I have separate meetings with Tim and Karla, and with Debra as well. Also need to pick out some kids to sponsor, as someone gave me money to sponsor 2 kids for a school year.

Also, tomorrow night for us, Sunday morning for you, John and I will be Skyping the church, so we are looking forward to that.

Time for dinner, so must close. Thanks for all your prayers, things are going very well.

Stan