Thursday, March 6, 2008

We appreciated an early start and today was entirely devoted to our team's tasks in the Wicklow Wing – painting three kitchen walls bamboo green and the fireplace wall a light brown color called ‘baking day’. The stairwell to the International Volunteers rooms is now completely white.

Amer and several other year-long residents of the Wicklow Wing expressed their appreciation of the results. Majorie, an international volunteer from Haiti, brought in the textbooks for her correspondence course. She questioned us about the meaning of such words as ‘inherent’ and 'discriminate' and we talked while we worked.

Our muscles are sore and we are all looking forward to a restful evening and a good night’s rest.

We are learning the alternate options for our Glencree trip to Belfast on planned for Friday and Saturday. Did I mention our muscles and joints are sore and we are all looking forward to a restful evening and a good nights rest?

- Joan Moore