A dual focus day

Today was a dual focus day. Our first time members of the team and some others who wanted to join went on a game drive in the Lake Nakuru National Park early this morning. They were up at five and breakfast at 5:30 for wheels up at six and an early entrance into the park. If you want to see the animals, you need to be there when they are getting up and being active for the day. I will post a bunch of pictures here showing some of the wildlife that they got a chance to see. Several of us have been on this game drive on multiple trips in prior years, and it's a great opportunity to see God's creation and the amazing African wildlife.

The remainder of the team and several of the SWOK university students went to Gituamba for a workday. Our focus was split between a crew cutting insulating material for ceiling panels to make the classrooms more comfortable in the hot weather. These panels were inserted in special tracks in the ceiling so that the heat coming through the corrugated metal roofing panels dissipates and does not get down to the level of the students. Several of us were involved in initial steps for putting together the wood panels that will form the top of steel welded desks that have been fabricated and powder coated and are ready for installation of the tops. Early this next week, they will be fitted to the desks and installed with hasps so that they can be locked, and a desk will then be assigned to each student. We are putting together 124 desks. We brought all the hinges and hardware with us in our shipping crates on the airplane. Another group worked on sanding and varnishing the wood parts of the students chairs, which were also welded and powder coated frames that will now have bent plywood backs and seats. Those will also be installed on the metal frames this next week after the varnish dries.