Day 14 - Tuesday

Another early start in order to continue from yesterday's good start on site. The group was broken down into 3 desperate groups with student team leaders designated by the groups in each one. There were three main tasks to complete today and each group would work on a rotation as to experience each aspect of the work. The three areas of work today were the continuation of the digging of the footings, making bricks and painting the existing 3 classrooms.

The local community turned out in force again today and not only matched our numbers but actually raised us which made for many hands on deck. This meant that we were able to dig the footings even deeper to combat the risk of erosion around the building to the land and make sure that it is more stable. 

As a result of the deeper footings more bricks were required and the students learnt how to make these in one of the empty classrooms where once they were made they were left to dry out.

The painting involved the mixing of the paint with water to ensure that we had enough. The classrooms were very dirty and we think hadn't been painted since the school was built in 2004, so it was certainly in need of a lick of paint. The students cleaned the walls and removed any debris before getting to work with the paint. At the end of the day we had given 3 classrooms a first coat and managed a second coat on one of the rooms.

We knocked off work at 1.30pm as we had used all the paint and cement. This gave us plenty of time to hit the beach and take advantage of the good surf!

After dinner Mr Abbott organised a poker tournament for approximately 10 players which included Mr Osbourne and Mr Dickens. The deal was Mr Abbott who also won, not want to cast aspersions but this was particularly suspect and Sam Keys who came 2nd was asking for a stewards enquire about the result but to no avail!