Hello there again,

Yesterday was a cold day and it was even raining when we left Port Alfred. With an eye on the clouds we figured the Qatar Students would not be able to do much. So we called them and told them to do something fun.

This left Us and MK with a lot of work for the whole day. Since it was not that warm, it was easier to work the whole day from 8 to 5 (Yes, yes be proud at us!). And what did we do? I think you must have guessed already. Sanding and scrapping. There was one wall left to do totally and an other wall half.

We practically did everything only for the top part. Which is kind of difficult, and while we were already expecting muscle pain, we hoped that Eddie could arrange something.

While we were sanding the whole day the construction workers were busy with the Roof (That takes lots of time) and filling all the cracks in the building.

To keep up the good work we decided to start singen at the end of the day, which kept us going. While we were busy, sanding, scrapping and singen, one of the boys from Shaw Park commented that Apartheid was really finished now, two white girls working really hard.

Since transport is a problem sometimes we got a lift from Eddie back to Port Alfred, in the back of the Bakkie. Nice in the wind, with our already sandy hairs. (check pictures)

Today was a quite day. Yvon had to work on her disseration, so I left alone with the Qatar students. They wanted to buy candy and balls for the students, and raised some money on our way there. With the 900R (90 euro!) they raised they bought lots and lots of candy to give to the children in the school.

We arrived only at ten and found out that the building had some water inside do to they thunderstorm of Yesterday evening. Lucky it didn't do any damges. There were no proffesional painters yet, so we had to do some more scrapping and sanding. While the guys were busy setting up (steiger??) to work on some of the girls cleaned.

The constuction workers are putting on the Roof Sheets today, and put on the first coat of painting.

At 11.30 the kids have a break and everybody stopped to hand them candy. Afterwards the children did some singing and dancing for us, which was as emotional as always. Lucky for me I was not the only one crying :)

Tomorrow Yvon is leaving to help out for a while and then it is weekend again. Monday is an offical holiday here in South Africa, however eddie thought he might be able to get the painters to put on the sencond and third coats. I will upload the pictures later, when I have my cable. As well as some pictures and movies the catarian students made (A LOT)

BTW keep up all the good work with raising money and Materials every little bit helps