Aug. 3 Ready for Students to Arrive!

The weekend of August 3-5 the hostel had to be ready for students to arrive... school started August 8.

Drive up to this side of the stairway to unload your luggage

Climb the stairs to this "welcome" sight on the front porch.

Entrez through this beautiful front door (there is a screen door here now too).

Just inside the door, put your backpack in your cubbie (guest restroom on the other side of that door)

Continue on in to the living room

Ah, but first, the dining table is to your right.  What's this?  Someon's in the kitchen...

...baking cookies! 
Dorm Dad Dan says - it functions: food comes out of the kitchen, but it can use some improvements.
(the kitchen, not the food)

Dorm Parents' room - nearly done.  Curtains are to be added soon.

One of the bedrooms is set up for visiting parents to stay in.

I refrained from photographing student rooms, respecting their privacy!
But I did take pictures in one of the kids bathrooms!  There's one on each floor.  Two toilets, 2 shower stalls, and 2 sinks in each of them.

Standing between the toilet stalls (left) and the shower stalls (right) notice the new cup and towel racks.

Showers with new curtains hung!

Dan and Karen Carlson are amazing - getting this hostel ready to receive students, ironing out the glitches in power and water systems, and Karen spent much of the past week or 2 in new staff orientation at RFIS in preparation to teach Bible class!  Bon courage, ashia, yika mpiko!

Oh look, while we've been on tour, the cookies came out of the oven - bon appetit!

First batch of cookies baked in the new hostel (I think)