Jerra RAWCS Tonga Trip 2015: Day 3 at the School

Day 3 Tonga Blog – 24 Sep 15

Up bright and early and thankyou Grant for a very enjoyable cooked breakfast. Chilly, Steve and Phil are a little worse for wear having partied a little too hard the night before on some very expensive malt whiskey until 1.30am. I believe Chilly texted Pammy more than once and there may also have been a phone call involved.

No rest for the wicked as we headed out to the school. Still not received our stores from DHL and both Chilly and Geoff are a little peeved. Gerry and Phil worked on the grates for the classrooms to keep the pigeons out and that was no mean task.

The ‘tech’ boys continued with working on the roof for the classroom, and the girls continued to paint the architraves for the boys. Mez and John continued with the back breaking painting of the chipboard for the boys…. Please hurry up DHL!!

Mez popped her head into the boy’s work area and had a go at the mess that they had made of the roof she had painstakingly painted, dirty marks and all. You should have seen Eddie’s face.

Mez popped in again and had a go at the boys that they hadn’t achieved much since she had last checked. You should have seen Eddie’s face…. Classic…

DHL stores finally cleared by customs. Mez and Geoff over the moon. Geoff got his badly needed tools and Mez got the additional rollers and extension wood so that she didn’t have to break her back painting the chipboard!

And who measured a piece of board, cut it and then suddenly thought that he may have cut the wrong side…. And when putting it in place, realized that he had cut it correctly and how could he have doubted himself, hey Molly???

The girls and John went home early to prepare for a hard days work the next day. Mez and Rick headed into town to resupply food and beer.