Here are a few videos we made relatively recently but haven't posted until now. At first, we were planning to save all our videos of construction work until the end, so it would be a surprise, but we've since decided that the surprise will be seeing a more unified video at our presentation at the College later this fall, which will show the entire process from start to finish.
In the meantime, here are the links to three new videos:
I've realized I haven't grasped the enormity of the scale of our project until it's started to come
to a close. We've done so much reconstruction work the school has not been able to function as a school for over a month. Yesterday we bought a new projector. Today we are moving in fifty new chairs and two new tables, hand-crafted by a carpenter who owns a shop up the road across from the monastery. This week, essentially for the first time since we've been here, the school is being put back together again. This time, though, instead of looking like a decrepit warehouse it looks like a normal classroom in America--only better because it's so much less sterile, with colorful murals on all the walls. It has a freshly-tiled bathroom with a new sink, seven new ceiling fans, and new lighting throughout. Before we leave, we've contracted another carpenter to craft new doors for the entrance of the school. Hopefully the drastic nature of the changes will be readily identifiable from earlier videos compared to later videos, which we will contrast in our final presentation to the wider Caldwell-Boise community.
--Keats
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