111 Tuesday Sep 21

Tuesday Sep 21 Day 111

I met with the Director of Facilities for Woodstock School this morning. I am now the proud possessor of floor plans for the 3 main residence halls. This will allow me to plan my shoots of the inside of the facilities. In early October I shall do a walk through of the halls one morning after the students have left for school and the staff is still around. In the last week of October the school shuts down for activity week and there is no instruction. During this week I shall tape the interiors and exteriors of the school with no students around. Pete Wildman, the facilities director, is very excited about me doing this and the preparation of a DVD of the school and the hill side. I have offered to provide any of the images free of charge and he is really pleased.

Yesterday morning I taped a landslide. It had occurred on Sunday. This morning a crew was starting to work on saving a tree. They will have cleared the fallen dirt by the end of today and start reconstruction tomorrow. They have already brought in sand to make the mortar for the stone wall. I have never seen an Indian get things done so quickly, it is truly amazing. I will go done a couple of times each day to document the process with my digital camera, no video.

During the 24 hours of Sunday 8 inches of rain fell on the hillside. The students have a rain gage and record daily rain fall. There has been 144 inches of rain during thismonsoon. This is almost two and a half times as much rain as normal.

Judy, there are no orchids in bloom at all on the hillside anywhere. It appears that they no long bloom here. There are still plenty of ferns on the tree trunks and branches. I have been here 21 days and have taped 3 mornings for 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours each.