Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Final touches







On Monday morning we returned to the school for our last day on the job. Our first task was to move a pile of bricks. We immiediatly set up a human chain. It took us about an hour. After this some team members worked on tuckpointing the bricks, while others painted the windows and trim. The team worked very hard and were very tired, we left the site at about 2 pm for lunchback at the Fatima centre which is a 15 minute drive we returned at 3 45 for a rematch soccer game with the highschools team. This time the highschools team played very hard and aggressive. Brian Mitchell was our goalie. He had a cheering section of approximetly 30 community kids who cheered him on with every save. The final score Canada 2 Rwanda 1 the winning goal was scored in the dying minutes by James. After the match everyone gathered at centre field where the local pastor spoke highly of the team and their work at the school and community. And he also prayed for a safe journey home. Students and youth took pictures together and said goodbyes before we boarded the bus. This would be are last time at the school . The classroom was complete and ready for students use next week. The initial construction started on July 29. When we returned to the fatima centre they had a special farewell dinnner prepared for us. This post comes to you from james' iPod touch in bourbon cafe in Kigali .

1 comment:

  1. I would have loved to have seen Brian Mitchell, stead-fast between the goal posts, leveraging his lower centre of gravity while blocking all of those shots. I am sure the local lads were amazed to see the agility of such a seemingly unlikely candidate....and somewhat intimidated by the sight of that pasty-coloured, Scotish-Canadian, middle-aged goaltender. The Blog is fantastic and I am sure you folks are having an experince of a lifetime. Thank you for sharing it with us.

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