Hola familia y amigos :)
Today was a very successfully fun day!
Most of us were fortunate enough to wake up around 7, however there
were a few (Kendra and Julie) who didn't realize their alarm clock
didn't switch time zones and woke up at 5:30. To say the least, they
walked to breakfast to find literally everybody else sleeping (except
for Mary, only because they woke her up when they got up). Other than
that, we started with an amazing breakfast of pineapple, rolls, and
scrambled eggs with sausage.
After that scrumptious breakfast, we
went to the Fogg's house to bring them the items we brought with us
from home. While there, we met their 3 week old kitten and their two
birds that really like to bite. We then strolled to the job site and
met the maintenance workers that were going to work with (Ken Wynia:
Rafael says “hi”) . After a quick hello and many welcomes, we
took a short tour of the hospital because it started to rain. It was
interesting to find out that a doctor's appointment was only $8, a
full body MRI is $80, and it is cheaper to fly down here and have a
surgery and then fly home than it is to have a surgery in the United
States. It was also interesting to see their snakes, caterpillars,
and worms in the formaldehyde from the lab.
Following that, we got to work
bringing all the supplies to the work sites (Sydney got stuck in a
ladder), scrubbing the metal bars on the windows with wire brushes,
and painting primer where the roof met the house. According to some
people, the window bars were impossible to clean and the ladders were
a bit shifty. As the morning went on, people were still scrubbing
bars, others were putting up scaffolding in the pouring rain, and yet
others were still priming the walls. We took a break for lunch and
had yummy sandwiches, plátano chips, pork rinds, and really good
cookie cracker thingies.
After we all had our fill of cookies,
we went back to work to start painting the window bars, scraping the
bars on the second house, digging to the foundation all around the
house, tearing out plants, and filling in holes with putty and
cement.
When our workday was done, we headed
back to the hostería but had some free time to roam around the town
on our way back and buy some super cool stuff. It was mostly snacks
:). For our final meal of the day, we went to the a pizza place and
ordered 6 medium pizzas for our group. They had almost everything on
them from pineapple, to chicken and mushrooms, to ultimate supreme,
to cheese, pepperoni, and some other cool stuff. We all had some free
time to relax and walk about the town (shout-out to Mariah, Emily,
and Erica for using their sweet spanish skillz by talking to a woman
about fruit!).
To completely end the day, we had some
amazing devotions where three people (Zach, Erica, and Sra. Cisneros)
were sharing their testimonies. Their stories really struck everyone
deeply and helped us understand more about them individually. They
shed some light onto some personal things and really opened up to the
group. Overall, it was a very fun and successful day!
- Kendra, Julie, and Zach
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