Thursday work day update!

On Thursday while a group went to Panajachel, the rest of the group stayed in San Lucas Toliman and worked! We finished off the school's floor, which needed to be redone.  Our work consisted of filling gallon buckets with chunks of old concrete and rocks from the ground, passing them down the bucket brigade line and dumping them out. Then new cement was created and layed down. The children were in school in other rooms at this time.. Well they were supposed to be. But with quite a bit of commotion going on because of us, they weren't that interested in school that day.  (Sorry to the teachers!)  

(Insert by Ms. Christy here...Actually, they were learning, just not what the teacher had planned that day.  In addition to English, I think were teaching them to work hard and to remain playful into adulthood.)

In the afternoon we headed to the reforestation project! It was a nice walk through the town, and then we started work again. We spent our time there filling up bags with dirt.  Later, they will plant trees in them. This was small work, not hard labor at all (Besides the wheelbarrow... Thanks Ann and Jimmy!) but the work had to be done, and we were glad to help! 

Simon: I get to answer your question lil brother!! :) "What is the strangest thing you've seen on the trip?" Hmmm.. Good question Si Si. The dogs are one of the strangest situations for me here. I LOVE dogs. But the thing is, here they aren't dogs, they are animals. Guatemala has people who are literally starving to death, so feeding stray dogs is not even close to being a priority for the people. Which makes sense.  It is just very strange and hard to see. 

This trip has been nothing less than amazing. Completely life changing. But I do miss my family, friends and my puppies Ruby and Pearl :) See you all in a few days!

-Shannen