Day 9

The time here is both rushing by at breakneck speed and also slogging along.  I can’t believe we’ve been on the ground for a week already and the time is flying by.  I also miss my family and can’t wait to see them again. 

We had an early start today as we headed to the church office for Christ Community Church (Wilbroad’s church).  The tasks were to paint the exterior of the building and also build some shelves.  We brought over 12 bins full of books for their Pastor’s College.  So it makes complete sense to build some book shelves in the new office to hold those books.

The projects started with dropping off most of the team at the building to start the painting.  Jay was left in charge of the painting while Wilbroad, Joel and I went to collect the supplies for building the bookshelves.  That entailed going to the hardware store (lumber), metal cast store (screws and driver bit), Shoprite (power drill,  tape measure and hammer), another hardware store (nails and square) and a street vendor (Philips screwdriver). Then we arranged for the wood to be delivered to the office (there are typically drivers waiting at the shops to make deliveries for folks like us).

We then headed back to the office to build the shelves.  The wood comes in sheets (240cm by 120cm) and you have to rip your own boards to width.  It took us about an hour to do that step.  Then we began assembling them.  We had one completed by lunch time at 1:00 pm.

Lunch was pizza which was pretty good. Then we continued with painting and shelf building.  The entire exterior of the office got painted (minus the trim) and we build 4 sets of shelves.  It was a long day.

Then back to Spree for showers, dinner (I had the fish again – it was delicious), team meeting and hangout time. Oh, and did I mention that it eventually degraded to a paint war?