Flaco assumed a hopeful pose outside the dining hall entrance.
Teacher Training
The bags of school supplies filled yesterday are ready to be handed out today. TUMC brought a selection of non-prescription reading glasses in various strengths. These will be popular with the teachers, most of whom have no access to eye care.
The teachers begin to arrive, most accompanied by their children. Part of our task today is to provide day care for the children. Each teacher put a sticker on the map to show where her village is.
One of the teachers brought this little baby. Kay carried it around for most of the day. Cristina also found a young friend.
The older children made costumes for their big dramatic moment later in the day.
In the dining hall, the teachers were attentive.
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| Yolanda leading the class |
A game of catch outside; later a game of "keep-away".
"Chutes and Ladders" board games were handed out to the teachers, and our instructors ran through the play of the game. For some of the teachers, this was the first board game they had ever seen.
The teachers' children made their dramatic entrance, dressed in the costumes they had made. The acted out the story of the three little pigs (note the House of Straw on the far left).
The boy playing El Lobo had a great time huffing and puffing and blowing houses down.
The "helping hands" display was augmented with traced hands from all the elementary school teachers.
Medical
On Monday, our doctors worked in the Rancho el Paraíso clinic. It's a really nice structure, much of it in the outside but under a roof, very appropriate for the climate.
It's not really an open-air dentistry suite. This is equipment that they can take to the offsite clinics when necessary.
Melissa, our dermatologist, saw patients in this suite, with Tamra and a translator to help out.
Waiting to see the doctor.
Harold, our pulmonary specialist. He saw lots of asthma cases during the week.
Alejandrina distracts the child while the doctor looks in an ear.
Tom, our gastroenterologist, with Marta as his translator.
Reading the doctor's orders, or perhaps a prescription.
Dr. German.
The doctors saw some 75 patients during the course of the day.
Construction
The first thing to do was to sand some of the large plywood sheets. It's lots easier to sand the sheets at the start than to sand the smaller furniture parts individually.
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| Brian, Kristen, and Matt |
Sanded sheets got a coat of varnish, applied by pouring it on and spreading with squeegee. The excess was scraped off at a corner, back into the varnish can. This was much more efficient than trying to varnish the sheets with a roller or brush.
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| Kristen and Dickie |
Power sander pas de deux.
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| Pat in the foreground |
Kristen taking a break after varnishing lots of plywood sheets.
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| Kristen |
Making furniture parts. The first things off the manufacturing line will be 25 chairs for an elementary school classroom.
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| Stuart |
Router and shaper tables were busy, seemingly for the entire week.
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| Tom, Brian, and Matt |
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| Susan, Kevin, and Matt |
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| Stuart and Tom |
Helping with the varnishing.
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| Rick |
One of the backs for the little chairs.
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| Matt |
Offcuts. I wonder if there's a market for plywood triangles with a rounded corner.
The assembly team uses a jig to hold the parts in the proper position, then glues and screws everything together.
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| Dickie, Myrna, and Brian (both photos) |
The end result, before and after finishing (more of the varnish).
The cross, from the dorms. A different look, because of the clouds and where the sun is.
Devotions after dinner again, and to bed early for many.
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