Lisa, being a midwife, offered to give a birthing clinic. The offer was enthusiastically accepted, well attended with many questions from the approximately 20 local midwives in attendance. I did not get to attend being of the wrong gender, but I heard the presentation, questions and interpreter all had their funny moments.
Most everyone helped with waitressing the dining customers and ourselves.
There was also the plumbing project, various electrical system repairs, moving light switches to doorways, grouting tile, etc. Here you see the grouters at work.
The bathroom (that was started last year for the new dorm room) moved along primarily by Kai, Ti and Jim into having a second functioning toilet and sink by the time we left. This master piece of work shown to the right involved taking up a concrete floor and part of a foundation wall to get into the main sewer line.
The shower was all but commissioned by installing piping, a shower head and the expensive and heavy cable needed to bring electriciy to the water heater. Holding the coiled plastic tubing straight while the two single conductors of heavy wire were fed into the tubing was a six person job, Ti, Ki, Willa, Haven, Rachael and Jim. After pulling about 120´ of wire into 100´ of tubing, we then hustled this very long item up to the roof, laying it out from fuse box to shower head. The last 20´ of wire was pushed through conduit inside the building. The one item lacking is a breaker to connect this cable to the power source. As soon as that is installed, there will be two toilets and sinks and one shower to serve the rooms and beds on the second floor
Here Kai and Ti are running the newly made electrical wire and conduit in place.
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