Children and crayons

8.30am Set up the schoolroom for Good News Club. Met at 9.30 am with Nick, Enid and Anya, who are helping lead the club. The children refused to sing, so I “sang” alone, accompanied by my “music box”.
At 11.00 am the older children walked the few meters from the schoolroom to the manse for their meeting. Once again, just as we had started, 2 boys knocked at the door and asked whether they could also come in. One of them is a little scamp, so I was pleasantly surprised.

In the afternoon, I rummaged through stuff that was lying around in the rubble of the damaged chapel. Found some very dusty crayons and stationery that could be used in the children’s work, provided it got cleaned up a bit. Cleaned and sorted through crayons and pencils and stationery trays. It is very hard to capture the extent of the damage to the chapel in a photo. Here are a few attempts.

One of the biggest bolders came through the roof near the back, bounced off the floor, hit a side window, and then shattered the railing on the gallery on its way down.

View from the gallery towards the front of the chapel

6.00pm went to the harbor area in town where the Yons have a fast food stand on Sat evenings. Bought our supper (chops and chips) at their stand, and had a good visit with Keith and Michielle.

Came home and cooked a “sort-of” chicken breyani (made with the spices that I could find) so that I don’t have to fuss in the kitchen tomorrow.