Girls Dorm

Each of the three brick dorm buildings at St Pauls school for the deaf has room for 12 beds. We had mattresses( in theory) shipped in and had to ask 25 girls to sleep in each of three rooms, for a total of 75 per building/washroom. There was also an adult staff or teacher room per building to keep order. This room housed at least 25 girls with luggage and was about 110 degrees by the time they all lay down. the atmosphere was definitely "camp like"- an unfamiliar concept in Lesotho.Role call at 9:30 p.m. was amusing and confusing...who was really saying "present" ? And then there was sharing the lavatory with them all......sometimes you actually couldn't open the door for kids bathing standing up in small plastic wash tubs, but they all turned out perfectly every day!