Busy, busy

Tuesday everyone on the team was busy, busy, busy.  I found Dwayne up on the roof--it´s where the students practice their laundry skills--and he was painting the cage that protects a compressor.  Beth and Michelle were down in the store room area painting the shaped mats that the physical therapist will use, directing a student to stand on the red square or the green triangle, etc. The girls likened themselves to surgeons, with their white dust masks and big rubber gloves. Dale and Steve were holding a seating clinic, evaluating the needs of various clients, both children and adults.  They´re doing the same thing today, but have just about run out of all the wheel chair parts we brought with us. Georgia translated for them. Becky didn´t get to go to the dance class yesterday because the teacher had fallen and broken her foot, so Becky helped supervise the painting and wheelchair projects. Carol, Becky, Georgia, and Dwayne gave a presentation for a parents´meeting.  It really meant a lot to those parents that people around the world have the same problems and challenges.  As for me yesterday, you can tell I was all over the place--giving Georgia a break at the translating, drawing more forms so that someone could cut them for the girls, and accompanying Dwayne and Steve to the hardware store.  The guys stayed late at CASP and the female team members left and attended a UMW meeting at the church we attended Sunday.  Sweet ladies, studying the Methodist traditions. They were so welcoming.  We sang too, and had snacks (we love those banana chips!) and exchanged gifts.  The cheek kiss on meeting and leaving is becoming more natural for us, and the ladies there loved it when Michelle told one she smelled nice! Good-bye for now.  We are all well and fine, and we´re trusting God´s taking care of all our families back home!   In his name,   Rita