Day @ Library

Leen & I helped organize the books for Rawafid School's new library yesterday (on Sat. Aug. 17th).

Expectation: 

• Sit in the library, surrounded by novels
• Add new titles to our to-read list
• Arrange novels on shelves

Reality: 

• Go to a very small storage room
• Separate old books from new books & school textbooks from other books
• Take regular books to library
• Throw old books into a truck fixed under the window
• Get pants & hands dirty
• Build a huge stack of books (twice, it fell the first time)
• Take lots of pics

So, we didn't exactly help at the library.

Old books (duh!)

Making of the "Sena-Leen Book Tower":

Result:

TA-DA! (I had to hold on to it for fear of having it fall again)

I searched for the world record for the "tallest book towers", & came across a few pretty cool records:

• Tallest Tower of Open Hardcover Books: 42 Books- Set by Andrea Watson & her friend from Canada on March 31st, 2013
• Most Books Stood On At Once: 48 Books- Set by a guy from the USA on March 27th, 2012
• Tallest Book Tower Stacked in A Corner: 107 Books- Set by Ferran Carlos from Spain on April 14th, 2012
• Tallest Book Tower Balanced On Chest: 86 Books- Set by Joshua Mallik from Kuwait on March 29th, 2010
• Tallest Paperback Book Tower: 27.5 inches high- Set by someone from Georgia in the USA on February 13th, 2013

Cool, huh?

So many books were thrown away because they're too old and of no use. We saw a book from the year 1970! Who would need a geography book that old? Most of the old books were from the 90's though. What a waste.

Aaaand... we got free unhealthy treats! :P

And looky looky at what we found! National Geographic Magazines! <3

Leen's actual words: "who, in his right mind, would throw these?" (I later figured out that the magazines were from years 1993 and 1994. But still)

And this basically summarizes our day! How was everyone's weekend?