The bathroom at the Institute has a small closet where cleaning supplies and paper goods are kept. It has a wooden cabinet which is too wide, so it doesn't fit well and makes the closet a mess. We took some measurements to see if there is something smaller we can buy.
Dee spent a bunch of time adding up the receipts for food for our last three months, so that Ugo can reimburse me. I will scan all the receipts so she can email the report to him. We have a budget of 250€ per month, which isn't much for all we do, but we managed to just make it under the number. There were receipts left over beyond our budget, but not as much as in the past. I wrote up the campus history for May and will do June and July on Friday. Somehow, because of a broken foot and some wonderful guests, we had fallen behind a bit of some of these housekeeping items. It feels good to be caught up.
Joyce dropped by early for a while before work. Later in the afternoon, Sheyla came by too, as did Samuel to work on his Pathway application. After another failed attempt (the Pathway website has serious issues, imo), we got smart and had him compose his little paragraphs first in Word so he could cut and paste them quickly into the online application. To figure out what was needed, I logged on as me and filled out an application without submitting it. Anyway, he finally got the application submitted after an hour or two, and then he had to take an online English proficiency test to be admitted. I was concerned about that, because Nigerian English is pretty far from what we Americans would think of as typical, but impressively he stuck to it. The test takes a few hours, and he passed! So now he is set to go in September when the semester starts, but he will have to come up with the (very small) tuition, as well as buy a (used) computer and get internet service at home. I want to help him select a computer and give him some more computer training. We also gave him a couple of chicken and cheese tortillas before he left.
Because there had been so much interest, we had announced that there would be a game night. About a dozen people showed up throughout the day, very good attendance for an August day in Italy! I played Uno for a while when the numbers were small, then happily bowed out as more kids came. They had a good time, and Dee made a bunch of chocolate chip cookies which were devoured as they came out of the oven. Mmm!
I organized our storage cabinets, shredded some cooked chicken, made the financial report for Ugo and some other random things. It was great to see the youth again.