Day 2

As the rest of the days have gone, we awake to the same alarm, at the same time. The soreness of the first day was starting to set in. The emotional toll was setting in. The confusion and frustration was setting in.

As usual we ate breakfast and I had the omelette special from my main man Kimani. A master behind the grill, and an artist of the food. Today I got the "peppers" in my omelette. I would later regret this decision, because the peppers from Kenya are nothing like the peppers in the state's. They are waaay  hotter. Lesson learned.

We finish breakfast, load the buses and head to pangani. Today we are determined to finish more shelves than the one from the previous day. We get to the school and go our separate ways. The construction team takes off like a theif in the night. We start cutting sheets of plywood, which we later find out are 1x2s glued together and adhered between two pieces of what seem to be veneer.

Our goal was to get was to double our production of the day before. We had to calculate tea time and lunch. Once on a roll we didn't want to stop for either. Following the same tea time and the same lunch time, we continued our blaze. By the end of the day we had 4 shelves done, trimmed and hung.

I won't go into the struggles of personality clashes, or the fact that too many A type people usually hinder the work being done. I also won't say that working with people of other cultures is easy and adaptable. Through this all, the most important thing was that we were doing the work of God for people who needed help.

On the way home we suffered through the brutal roads of Kenya, the diesel filled smog and the fact that none of us had seen any type of air conditioner since late fall.

Once at the hotel we had dinner and our meetings to talk about how the day went and how we all felt about the overall trip. Thus far for the most part we all seem to be on board with the work that needs to be done and the most efficient, effective and culturally accepted way of doing things.

All in all a great feeling, now comes the middle of the work week.