Steeve Visits the Toronto Centre (a) - Round 4 of the Renovations

So this is finally the weekend that Steeve, a teacher from the Montreal Centre, came to visit us to help out with the Centre renovations, and also, to enjoy a full day walk on Sunday. He was a big help for sure, as you will see in the pictures below. We've made quite a bit of progress on the Centre now and after a couple things such as the trim and the floors in the main room, we'll soon be able to finish up the washrooms, and the practice rooms in the back. All will be ready in time for the next round of courses to begin.

Hopefully Steeve (and the rest of the Montreal Centre) will come when the Centre is complete in order to actually do some practices there, besides a quick mantra 'O' to start off followed by a long day's worth of intense concentration exercises! Below are the pictures from the work on the Centre. In the following blog will be the pictures from the walk.

Jordan

Steeve arrives in his work clothes ready to go while Olga works on the edges of the wall

Stas and Steeve work on sanding the rough patches on the wall

Ruben and I figure out the logistics of putting up the truss while Adam works on giving the edges of the wall a second coat

That's me carrying one of the newly-painted truss boards back to the front

Putting up the truss...

Still going

Still going...

Time to call in the expert - Stas finishes up the job with a 'unique' technique to call his own

Watermelon break...

and lunch time

Jenny works on painting the insides of the mirrors gold while Adam continues his putting the second coat on the edge of the wall saga

Steeve tries his hand at painting the ceiling - in the men's washroom

Stas does some much needed touch-ups due to my shoddy work painting the ceiling in the women's washroom

Steeve sands the back wall as I work on the door to the practice rooms hallway - all the while Adam intensifies his concentration on his big task at hand, yep, painting the edge of the walls :-)

 
Stas admires his plastering and spakling job done on the wall

Sylvia and her friend the shop-vac clear out some of the dust left from all the sanding done recently

Steeve works on painting the 'staff washroom' blue

Jenny showing Dara where she left off with the gold paint so she can take over

Everybody getting ready to discuss the all-night Astral practice, the same practice done in all the Centres around the world in the final week of the courses.

View from the front as of this weekend