21 May 2018 Let the WORK Begin! As is often the case on Builders Group trips, we don’t have much of an idea what work projects we’ll be working on. Janka had told us we’d be doing ‘windows’, but we don’t have our usual ‘Window Lead’ with...
20 May 2018 Nádherný den! (Beautiful day!). Yes, we awoke to a beautiful sunny morning, with the birds singing… and the dogs barking! The flowers are in colorful bloom the trees and grass have on their spring green. Amazing what a few hours of much needed sleep...
The COUNTDOWN continues... The Builders Group has just one day left before departing to Martin, Slovakia. We are putting together the last few items in our luggage and getting instructions to those who are taking care of our houses. We were given a number of items to take...
'LUCKY 13' Builders Group The Vision Slovakia Builders Group team will be in Martin, Slovakia on May 18th – May 30th to help 'spruce up' the campus before CCE's 20th Anniversary and 1st High School Graduation on June 22-24. We will be landscaping, repairing and painting windows...
The Builders Group left Martin on Wednesday, Jan. 27 with Tomáš Gulán as our chauffeur of the yellow van as we headed to Krakow for a couple of days of sightseeing. Since the teachers strike is still occurring Tomáš didn’t have teaching responsibilities...
Can it really be Tuesday? It seems we just got here 3 days ago. and it’s been a week already. Today was a wrap up day and a day to have some fun. After breakfast we walked about 1K (1/2 mile) to a rink where the high school students had organized a floor hockey tournament (organized long...
We awoke to warmer temperatures (30F) but also a fresh coating of light snow. We were all moving a bit slower this morning, which is understandable with the hard labor of demolition and the hiking we did over the past couple of days. But we all were willing to do what we could to continue...
Sunday, a day of rest for us Protestants. It started out with a late breakfast at 8:30 a.m. where Dušan Haška made us omelets and a spread of bread, cheese, meats, and veggies, juice and coffee as well. Worship starts at 10 a.m., where Katka Valčová was our translator...
Today was ‘parents, students & staff’ day to work in the ‘Destruction’ Zone of the new High School Building. There were about 30 people total from all ages. A LOT of things got REMOVED and MOVED today. Scrap wood was loaded into a truck, and concrete/plaster debris...
Most of us got a good night’s sleep, after a rousing couple of games of Farkle to keep us awake till 10 pm. The day of demolition was a hard day of pulling up linoleum, parquet flooring or toting buckets of concrete debris to the window chute to the overflowing dumpster. Wood was stacked...