Wednesday, 5/1/13
One more month to
go.
The kids keep
reminding me so. Little Miguel was teary-eyed in my lap asking why I was
leaving so soon.
At 7:30 a.m. we had
our first parent-teacher meeting. About 15 parents joined us to discuss the
school. We received an equal amount of positive and negative comments. Maybe it
was because I was a scarey gringo, but none of the parents had negative
comments about my teaching. Only 4 parents of my children attended and only 2
wanted to talk with me. We discussed their children and laughed about how silly
they can be sometimes. One mother jokingly asked if I wanted to keep her son
for her. I said yes. She laughed.
After the meeting, I
played hangman, pictionary, and trivia with the kids to teach English and
Spanish. Then it was quitting time. For din-din, we ate like kings, princes,
and frogs.
Then…the big event
of the day. Chad, Jerry, Sam, and myself gathered hammers, nails, and wood to
go build a house! For an old couple. With a retarded son. We decided not to
build the home for baby Bismark and his family due to their lack of cooperation
and other problems. This other family is even more needy, so I believe God
worked things out quite well. It is unfortunate that Bismark will be still
sleeping outside, though.
We unloaded the long
boards and building supplies. Jerry made us look like little girls as he would
carry 2 or 3 boards to our 1. Our self-esteem sunk lower when we could not
hammer nails into the wood. Those 4-inch long boogers kept bending in half.
Through sheer determination, however, I finally got one in…after 19 tries! We
built tresses for the home and called it a day. We will resume next week when
we have more supplies.
To celebrate our hard
work, we bought 200 oranges…but almost ate all of them before we returned to
the happy, hungry family.
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| The tiny shack of the old couple |
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| A tiny tree-snake |
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| A big papaya |
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| The "cool" guys returning from our orange mission |
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| The first nail I victoriously conquered after 19 attempts |
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| Random pic of David sawing his bike in half |
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| Building the tresses |
**Keep
adventurizing!...I know I will!**
This is so so so exciting. So pleased that you are all stepping out in faith and instead building a house for this family. Which to my opinion was Gods plan all along. Missing you guys, but looks like you are soaking up your last few weeks.
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