Manual Labour All Done....

Well what a busy day!

We all got to the church soon after 10am again & after we had spent some time in prayer we hit the ground running. Four teams to begin with - one cracking on with the papering of the walls & one on papering the ceilings, and then one on painting the ceiling in the foyer & one starting on painting the walls of the hall. Sounds like madness but it was effective.

By lunchtime the foyer was complete & ready for cleaning. We had gone as far as we could with the papering due to finishing all the rolls of wall paper & completing the ceilings - Hurray!! Definately making progress. Lunch was good - more cheese & meat & salads in crunchy baggettes with fruit & yoghurt.

Once we were refueled the plan of attack was to start cleaning the floor in the foyer & continue painting as far as we could. The limiting factor being that the paper that had only just been hung needed time to dry.

The cleaning was hard work....with hoovering to remove the dust & then using scrapers to get the drips of paint & glue off & then a bit of scrubing. They had moved in to the main hall & done one third of it by the time we stopped for tea. The painting was complete by then too - as far as was possible anyway. So when we came back down it was a concerted effort to clear out the hall & get the floor clean. All very hard work espically when we are all now at the stage of feeling sore & tired.

There was still some fun going on...much singing during the day & things like racing along on the floor cloths.

We are now all trying to get clean before heading out with our hosts for a meal tonight.

I'll be back later this evening with more to say & more photos - so come back soon.

Oh - Soose, Matt said to say hi. Hope this is interesting enough :)