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Today was the day before the first day of school after vacation, and the bulk of the new furniture was delivered to the school. As we had ordered simple hand-made furniture from a local artisan, as opposed to factory-made furniture from a corporation, not all the furniture was made in time. We expect the remainder to be delivered within a month.

It took five loads to get rid of the old broken furniture

Of course the first task was to take all the broken desks and chairs and haul them to the dump. The boys of the school were commandeered, and formed long lines snaking through the school, passing the old furniture hand to hand to a tractor-trailer, which hauled everything off. It took five trips.

Next came the new furniture, and the entire process was reversed.

The whole thing took all morning and into the afternoon, including the wait between hauls to the municipal dump. The school’s Parents’ Association provided refreshments for the boys, and the Principal used the school address system to play Tamil movie hits; and so the occasion turned quite festive.

So now ALMOST all the students have desks in their classrooms, and chairs to sit on.

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