We spent a day and half visiting 11 schools to get final aproval to drill water wells and build toilets. What an exercise you have to go through to give them something. These are the pictures.

The first picture is of a typical school directors office. Not too elaborate. You go into their offices and find no office equipment, no filing cabinets and very few shelves that are mainly empty. The next is a classroom in a school funded by Japan. They are really nice as you can see. The next picture is the more typical classroom out in the villages. They need some help.

The next three pictures go together. Outside of one of the schools was a coconut tree. Out comes one of the teachers, kicks off his sandles and climbs up the tree. Down comes some green coconuts. The next picture shows another teacher cutting off the top down to a little hole which they put a straw into. The next shows the final product.

The next picture shows our lunch being cooked. This was Thanksgiving day and this is our first Thanksgiving day dinner. The next shows all that is left once we are done. You can see what is left of the fish, the rice, the chicken (if the picture was better you could see a chicken’s foot on the plate), a soup that was really good that you put over the rice, bannanas and papia. The last is of a water buffalo cooling itself off near one of the schools.