The old is being torn down, the new installed!

Two weeks ago was term1 break here at the school. All of the students had a week off and it was pretty quiet around here on campus. But it was busy with construction projects.

At the end of the week prior to school break a crew from New Zealand started preping for the installation of 48 solar panels on the roofs of classroom buildings.

We were amazed at how fast the panels got installed. All were installed by Wednesday. Then they starteded all of the electrical tie in by Saturday. The electrical tie in is nearly completed. A well planned and executed job.

House #1 a 3 bedroom unit, has been in the planning stages to be completely torn down and rebuilt into a duplex, 2 one bedroom units. A company out of Samoa showed up on Monday of the term break and by that Friday had the house nearly torn down. It is now down and they are prepping for the new concrete pad.

They are salvaging as much lumber, roofing, windows, etc as they can to use on other projects they have. They let me know that the duplex will be completed by September.

I and the construction class are building a new table and computer desk for house #7. The dining table is being built from scratch.
This is the dining table.

The finished table.

The carpentry shop does not have any natural air movement because of where it is located. Plus none of the fans are working right now.  Thus it can get very hot and muggy and I become drenched in sweat after 20 minutes. Then all of the sawdust just sticks to me.

The computer desk is being built from an old Mahogany table that we are salvaging the wood from.

We have been cleaning house #7 in preparation to move into it. The contractor will be starting on Monday to convert the storage area into an office.
The reception desk and computer bench for the Mission Office were delivered by the builder and installed. He had not built anything like it and was grateful for my drawings and directions. I spent the morning helping them install them.

We have been busy performing our temporary Mission Office duties. It has been fun getting to know all of the young Elders and Sisters.
This is Susan boxing up items for the missionaries on the outer islands.

This past week the Baking class students were learning to decorate cakes.

The last few weeks have been busy, just the way we like it. We are seeing progress with our TVET Teachers and are seeing other areas we now need to focus on. We do have things that are constant, traditions you might say. Every Monday is FHE with the other Senior Couples and with the President and his wife if they are on island. Every Friday we eat out with all the Senior Couples. Then every other Saturday is movie night. Last week we watched Moana. Elder Reese slept through most of it. He is not a Disney fan.