Day 3 More good work

Last night after a hard day of slog at the school, we freshened up and headed out to a local Chinese Restaurant for dinner.  The restaurant did not have a banquet menu as such, so Paul (Roger) did the ordering and a great feast was consumed. Special dishes were cooked to cater to gluten free requirements (definitely no Soy Sauce - a challenge in a Chinese restaurant).  Photos of some of the delicious dishes were taken and will hopefully appear in the blog later tonight or early tomorrow.  The restaurant had VB beer and some very nice Australian red wine from the Griffith region.  After the meal we returned home to what is becoming a nightly tradition of tasting each others duty free (medicinal purposes only) purchases. Last night's was a Macallum Select Oak single malt.  There was also a DJ dual between Chilly, Grant, and Geoff.  Each played music from their IPhones/notepads. Each had their own era of music and all were good.  Chilly felt that he won, but the popular vote went to Grant, and Geoff expressed the view that it was all very unfair.  Thank you guys for the entertainment.

Day 3 started with the team breakfast, in the breakfast house.  Platters of fresh fruit were provided by our guest house staff, and we also enjoyed cereal and toast (acquired during our supermarket trip on Day 1).  Then it was all aboard the buses and off to the school for another day of toil.

Today we continued the prep of the classrooms.  More windows were removed and cleaned, and work on stripping and sanding the window frames in classrooms 2 and 3 got underway.  Classroom 1 reached the stage where the window frames are now ready for painting (standard of preparation approved by Terry - the 2 Pauls though it was ready yesterday, but were persuaded that more prep could be done and we had to wait for the drop cloths as we are not trusted as tidy (drip free) painters.
The additional wood surrounds ready for the security mesh were also completed for classrooms 2 and 3 and the upper mesh was installed for classroom 1 and half of classroom 2. (now waiting for more mesh to be delivered).  Lots of other things were happening too, with doors being removed and repairs started, anti pigeon mesh going up in spaces in the eaves, etc.

Lunch was again huge, provided by the PTA.  We are thinking there may be some weight gains if we are not careful, despite all the physical labour.