Fourth Day: Wednesday, June 29th

Larry- We finished the priming of the house and completed the second coat on the onside of the house. We sprayed all the shelves for all the cabinets. Paint, paint & more paint. Matt, Tim, Casey, Kinzie and Casey prepped the space where the brick was going to be placed, by plowing and digging up the dirt. We almost had a near disaster when Kinzie hit one of the wires but thankfully she only dug into the coating of the wires. Rosina, Vicki & Kinzie carried bricks to home and brick was placed between the houses and we have started placing bricks behind the home also.


Kinzie- Today was a day full of work. Other than the obvious, work with the home, me, my mom, Taylor, Louie, Rosina, Lerato & Monika went to the girl's Christian school to watch Dieketsang and Motshidis', two orphans at RHI, recital and be honored for making the honor roll at their school. Both made "supevisors honor roll" which means they both recieved a 80% or higher on their books they have to fill out for school work. Also in their ceremony they honored a girl for being the first girl at their school to go to college. Sadly, here in Africa even students with astounding grades still do not make it to college because they either can't afford it or they aren't accepted. Because many people here do not have an education, they have to settle for factory jobs or jobs were you get paid very little, they may even only get paid $10 a day. In these past few days we have all really learned to be happy with everything we have, because some of the people here have nothing.

Rosina, Dieketsang & Lerato