“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Philippians 4:13
To Do List Before Opening School:
- Build and Paint Light Table
- Build and Varnish Art Table
- Build Frame for Solar Panel
- Install electrical wires, batteries, regulator, and invertor for solar power
- Install wiring, switches, and globes for lights
- Paint main school room (2 coats)
- Prime and paint new art studio (2 coats)
- Prime and paint new light/shadow studio (2 coats)
- Plane and cut 16 shelves
- Install 10 shelves in art studio
- Install 6 shelves in light room
- Clean all tables, stools, shelves, floors, windows, walls
- Set up classroom, hang decorations, bulletin boards, etc.
- Install wiring for electrical plugs for light table and technology center
- Sweep, mop, wax, shine cement floors x 2
- Clean and sort store room
- Organize art supplies in new space
- Create class lists for children
- Other random necessities to get the class ready for children…
This is what I came back to in late January!! We had hoped the builder would have finished before I left last year so that all the painting and most of the cleaning would have been done by now, but low and behold it was not, so we had a very short time to get everything done. Praise God they were able to get enough river sand to finish the floors inside both of the additions…what a great surprise! We started these tasks almost immediately upon my arrival and made great progress and great time. Then we had to go to town for supplies and visas and ended up being there for 2 days instead of 1 day, which started taking our time from working in the school. One day back and I realized we didn’t have the paint for the main room like we thought we had…so I had to go to town with the crew who was going and take a bus to Livingstone to the paint we needed! Day 3 in town and now there are only two days before school opens and we haven’t been able to do the big leg work yet. I was nervous, but figured with all the help and a couple nights working til midnight, we should hopefully get it all done.
Well after a few 19 hour days, 101 fever, 5 people working almost non-stop, lots of sweat and tears most everything was finished the day we opened for school!! Jako, Rachael, and I put the finishing touches on the art room shelves and hanging the other few things around the room yesterday and it is all settled now!! Thank you God for supernatural strength to get everything done, supernatural healing from the after effects, and supernatural peace as we opened the Twana Little School for the second year.
Twana Little School 2013
More to come about the first week of school…
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