The start of a new day meant meeting up again at the church building with Jean-Marc & Claude to think about another day's work...first things first though it was time to catch up & find out how everyone's evening had been.
Matt & Sam were staying with Claude & his wife Marguerite. Matt & Sam's knowledge of french is very limited & their hosts English is about the same so it was an interesting evening making use of a phrase book & sign language to communicate. One of Sam's new phrases yesterday was "J'ai faim!" (I'm hungry) which was an in joke this morning with Claude & meant Sam learnt the work for eating - "manger".
Monica, Arnaud & Shelley were with the Pingard family, the furthest from the church. Their evening meal yesterday included a large selection of local cheese & wines. They had a bit of education about where each of them were from in the region as well as lots of conversation. This morning there was a discussion about tea & which ones are traditionally drunk at what time of day in England...
Tim & Rachel are staying with the Berger family. It sound like they too had lots of fun & were even given a music lesson by Roch who is French Christian singer songwriter. Clémence has bought them some things to help make them feel at home including porridge oats. We know they also had a look at this Blog so - Hello Clemence & Roch!
The rest of us stayed with Tim's parents & had a good relaxing evening with good food. All 11 of us are please to say that we had some very good SLEEP!!!! last night and very much needed it was too after all that work & the late arrival the night before.
A common theme in many of the home we are staying in is dogs. The Bergers have five small terriers, the Pingards & Brooks something a little bigger....they have all been entertaining. Apparently, Tim Leigh had his toe gnawed all through dinner.
Back to work
Our task for the day was to continue with the papering & with only half of the ceiling in the foyer left to do it wasn't long before there were three teams of paperers working in the hall. Two on the walls & one on the ceiling. It took a fair bit of working out how to do the ceiling as it was much bigger lengths than they had been used to from yesterday. There was lots of singing & whistling to go along with the work & you could tell when things were going well as the volume increased or when the was something tricky to be worked on when it went quiet. There was at one point the suggestion that a Men United Choir should be formed & that they should wear robes & enter the X Factor...I kid you not - this was a suggestion from the guys in the group.
We stopped for some lunch at, well...lunchtime. The Brooks & Richard along with his wife Valérie & Jean-Marc joined us (Claude had gone home for lunch). We had baguettes with lots of interesting meat, pate & cheese to assemble in to sandwiches. We ate lots but then we needed the fuel. It seemed to get very loud as very one chatted & enjoyed.
After food everyone was keen to get back to work & as thirteen was a few too many even for the three team of paperers a few of us started to paint the foyer walls as the paper was nicely dried.
We had a really good incentive to see how far we could get...the Church have been unable to book their normal room for the Sunday service & were only offered a much smaller one a bit out of town so the decision has been made to use the church building for the first time this week - only a one off but very exciting so we'd all love to get as far along as possible.
We stopped tea at 4pm but it was difficult to get some people to stop!
By the 6pm we had the walls in the foyer painted (ceiling still to do), and in the hall only the end wall (a narrower sort) and the last section of ceiling to do - was very impressive progress!
Prayer Points:
- For Saturday, that we get lots done & can get the building into a reasonably usable state by then end of the day.
- For the team - for continued enthusiasm & energy
- There will be some more church members around helping tomorrow so pray that it would be a good time of working in fellowship with one another.
Keep watching for more posts & photos - We'll have get some from our other photographers too!
4 comments:
more fun had by all!
Me & Mr Dowding chopped 2 trees down today!
Would still rather be with you guys. (No offence Dave)
sounds great fun. For anyone interested, Chris has a nickname for Dave!! :))))
Brilliant post, keep going and will see if we can get the video sorted for Sunday.
Meanwhile back in the UK, we have had freezing weather and a tornado has struck Susie's house, forcing her to go and stay with her sister, Miriam. all was well until the new kitten jumped on her head in the night, Anna threw up in Miriam's cereal bowl, Joel played 5 hours of rugby and could no longer walk, Luke put fish fingers on the dessert menu for Granny's 60th birthday. The kandiah house is known locally as the madhouse, and Anna thinks Susie is an ice cream. Help - someone needs to rescue susie before she turns into a nutter!
P.S. From Joel...
hello mattthis is a big joke
except for the rugby
p.p,s from anna..
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