Wednesday was our work day – all the staff members basically do the equivalent of a detention duty in order to get the campus looking clean and ready for the students and parents to come Monday.
It wasn’t really like a detention, though, because our jobs were fun to do together. I also really liked my job:
After cleaning the building, we all weeded the paved areas of campus.
After a hard day of hauling, cleaning, sneezing dust bunnies, and scraping insolent weeds out of the bricks, each mission had a dinner in the evening. WorldVenture went to a Chinese restaurant in Weil am Rhein.
We all look pretty happy out there. That was shortly before the storm came. We blame it on France. The thundercloud definitely originated on that side of the river. The waiter was taking our order when we saw the storm coming in, so we asked if we could move inside. He said, “It’s not raining yet!” We said we’d finish ordering before moving in. So we moved inside, and the food had just started arriving when a huge gust of wind blew through the restaurant, sending napkins flying all over the room! The wind also blew the umbrella over outside. It was quite the storm! We helped close the door and pick everything up, before enjoying our dinner with a bit of lightning as a backdrop to conversation.
