Building the kitchen Sep 11

Yesterday afternoon the Young Adult Volunteers (YAV's) arrived at Gautier for this part of their training. They live in the pods, cook, clean, etc just like the volunteers who come down here. They need this experience before they become the managers. There are 3 men and 7 women here for 4 days. One of the young guys was wearing a cowboy hat and I found out he will be the work site manager for Gautier. He thinks its great here in the pasture and he's from Texas. these people have had a lot of mission type of work already but in the inner cities with other volunteer organizations - they are quite a group of people. I am their manager as no other PDA people stay overnite in the village so we have talked often informally about being a manager, ask me questions so that is neat.


Dave, a retired contractor from Seattle, is here supervising them at building the kitchen. Only a couple of these YAV's have done any building before. They got the foundation and floor and one wall partially done this morning. They spend their mornings getting practical training and in the afternoon they get more classroom type training. Wilf (logistics person) gave them all a saw lesson and had the girls each operate a circular saw plus he showed them the different kinds of saws. Tomorrow they will learn how to drive the truck pulling a trailer, how to hook it up, between times of constructing the kitchen. The kitchen will be 12 x 14 and the covered deck next to it will be 12 x 14 where we can put the grills.


It is a cool evening after some sprinkles tonite. Had some lightning and thunder early this afternoon but didn't amount to much. Take care all of you.

Phyllis