On Monday
September 25, welcomed the Sacred Heart College group to our school.
(Sacred Heart College is a Marist Brothers' School situated in the suburb
of Glen Innes in Auckland, New Zealand.) The "malaga" is organised by
Brother Marcel Hall, and with him are two fellow staff members,
Father Steve Berecz and Mr Rob Wisnewski. The ten Form six students on the
malaga are Dayne Addison, George Buckleton, Francis Burke, Liam Fisk, Dylan
Kane, Reuben Main, Mat Martin, Jonathon Masoe, Chris Salman, and Eamon Tolhurst.
The progress of the malaga and the work project are displayed on this
page.
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| The scope of the job. this is the roof of the main school building which the group will be painting. | ||
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Thursday October 4. Behold the finished product. Job completed
around 11am. Rains started at midday, and continued heavily all afternoon. |
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| Sunday morning mass at the Cathedral in Apia | Arrival at Salelologa wharf, Monday morning. | |
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| The newly arrived malaga group pose outside the Fale Samoa at Ulimasao Marist Centre. | The group is accorded a formal welcome by students and staff . Br Marcel receives the first bowl of 'ava | |
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Tuesday 26/09. Roof preparation work starts. Sanding, brushing, sweeping. Ulimasao students have done some of the work, so this stage is progressing well. Very hot up there today. |
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| Wednesday was rained out. No work. Thursday, a fine hot day. More sanding in progress here. | And now applying Rust Guard, George and Dayne are on the job . The roof is now ready for the first coat. | |
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Liam and Jonathon with their billet, Glenn Mariner, from
Salelologa. |
Mat and Reuben applying the first coat. PM work today after being rained out in the morning. |
Francis has the painting style down to a fine art. |
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Saturday September 30. Picnic day at Manase, at Regina Beach Fales. |
Br Marcel makes a presentation to Mr Gaono Smith, owner of the resort. Gaono is David Smith's grandfather. | |
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The SHC haka is performed for the first time in Samoa at Regina Beach Fales, Manase, Savaii. |
Tuesday October 3 and great progress being made. | |
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| Mat and Dayne with their billet, Kuka Tui Misi. | Mat quaffs a bowl of 'ava at the assembly to thank the malaga group. | |
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| Post painting trip to the Alofaga blowholes. | Francis and Reuben with their host, Maselusa. | |
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Thursday October 05. And so all good things come to
their inevitable end. This morning the malaga group caught the 8am ferry
back to Mulifanua and Apia. Early tomorrow morning they catch their return
flight to Auckland. They leave behind a well painted roof, but take with
them, I am sure many happy memories of their time on Savaii. It remains for
me to offer a big "faafetai tele lava" to Br Marcel, Fr Berecz, Mr
Wisnewski and 10 great young men from SHC. We enjoyed hosting you and I need
say no more than, "Come again - please!!" |
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