Now that we’re into rainy season let’s take a look at changes and growth taking place on the campus at RFIS. 

You may remember last fall when the wall around the school campus was damaged by a fallen tree… 

 The wall has been repaired… 

At the right of the entrance walkway to the school there’s a nice garden with plants that spell out RFIS so you’ll know where you’ve arrived at… 

 

On the left side of the entry walkway now there’s a nice rock and flower garden. 

 

Once school started last fall staff and students found the stairs a bit dangerous in the rainy season.  So last month a team of Wycliffe Associates worked hard to put a shelter over the stairway at the library.

The next big project is the parking lot.  During dry season Ron worked at pushing dirt around to enlarge the area. 

Now that the rains have come it gets pretty muddy, sloppy and slippery.  The plan is to reinforce the front right corner with cement blocks that had been left on the property by the previous owner.  And then entrance and exit ramps from the gate to the parking lot need to be “paved” with brick or some solid surface.  The rest of the parking needs lots of gravel so prevent muddy sloppiness getting all over shoes and nice clothes… to say nothing of busses getting stuck in it!

Nobody seems to know what these cement blocks used to be used for.  But Ron plans to use them to reinforce the perimiter of the parking lot along the lower side.

And finally, the world’s largest palm has grown a 3rd leaf!  Grow little Talipot Palm, grow!