Friday, September 28, 2007

The sewing center

Just before our second week started, Elio Madonia, the Samaritan Foundation founder and Lina his wife left for Canada to attend their grandchild`s wedding. During the week we did some painting at our home and continued to get our bearings around our environment. Jane and I visited the sewing center where she was going to work and help teach. While we were there, Jane spent a lot of time cleaning the place up and sorting through some of the material. I built some shelves for the sewing goods and continued to organize through the stuff that was there. There were sewing machines to clean and Jane was feeling right at home when while sorting through the material, she came across some of the ugliest, biggest spiders I think we have ever seen. They even gave me the creeps and I don`t mind spiders. One of them was so big I had to arm wrestle it to see who got to keep the shop. Thankfully I won! Another goody we found while Jane and I were removing the boxes from the storage closet was a very alive and healthy rat. It ran out from between us and eventually we chased it out of the building completely. Never a dull moment. Jane has just finished cleaning the last of the machines and today, Wednesday Sept. 26, they start interviewing the village ladies to see who the first sewing students will be. This is great news and there will be many ladies vying for the first classes.

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