We had electricity all day today so we were able to get 17 panels up.  There are 36 total.  We are leaving a 5 mm space between panels and filling the gap with silicone to make the structure water tight.



The third year diploma students purchased the supplies and made lunch for everyone as a thank you for the school year just ended.  They made chicken stew, rice, green grams, cooked cabbage, chapatis (like tortillas), ugali (thick dry gritty corn stuff like nothing you can imagine), sukuma weki (like spinach) and even bought pop for everyone.

This morning we started installing panels on the structure.  We have to drill holes in the purlins to match the holes on the panels so we can bolt them down.  Unfortunately, after installing the first panel, the electricity went off and we could not drill any more holes.  The power came back on about 2:30 and we eventually got 4 panels up.

The contractor came about 4:30 and got started pulling wires through conduit from the structure to the battery house but got stopped by heavy rain.  They hope to have the system finished and functional by the end of the day Thursday.

Friday we got the outside of the battery house plastered and the metal roofing up.



We also are finished with the structure for the panels.  Monday we will start installing the panels.

Today we only had electricity off and on for about half of the day so we did not get as much done as we hoped.  We did get the purlins up.  The roofing arrived late but we did not have time to put it up.



We also got the inside walls plastered with waterproof plaster.

We have a fairly serious problem in the library with mold coming up through the cracks in the floor.  This is one of several spots on the uphill side of the library.  There was also mold high up on the walls, but that was scrubbed with bleach and is much better now.



All of the buildings at FTC are slab on grade.  Any guesses as to how we might be getting moisture under the library floor?

In anticipation of moving the laptop computers to the new computer lab in the library, Jim started installing the eye blots in the tables for the lock down cables.  Rosina is eager to learn anything she can and wanted to use the drill.  During the campus clean up event last Friday she learned to use a lawnmower.



Today we stripped the form boards off the ring beam and welded the trusses to reinforcing bars that were embedded in the ring beam.



We don't use back hoes or trenchers here.  All of the digging is done by hand with a hoe and shovel.  Manual laborers of this type earn about $3.00 per day.

This is taken in our chapel.  Yesterday nominations were made for leadership positions for the next academic year.  Today the 14 new leaders were named and the transfer of responsibilities were handed over.  Of the 14, I was pleased to see that 2 of our returning library work study students were chosen - Joshua as Vice-Chair of the Student Body and Simon as the Head Student of the Library. Both of these are our newly trained book repair students as well.