Worky Work, Busy Bees!

6:30- That’s when we woke up this morning ready to start our day. We packed our lunches and headed off to breakfast. We ate at a local hotel where we were served fruit, eggs, beans and freshly squeezed orange juice. After eating, we walked to the Utatalan school where we helped teach the young children English. We covered colors today.

This is when our backs and hands began to hurt. For the next six hours we mixed, wheeled and smoothed concrete. Everything was done by hand. While some where doing concrete, others were painting. Lee also worked on some of the broken down computers at the school. Others who didn’t have any work to do, hung out with the children. There was a soccer field on top of the school where we kicked around and played soccer with the children and got to know them a little. It was a good time :)

Though we became famished for our intense labor, our stomachs were soon stuffed to the rafters! We were fed delicious comida (food) for lunch. The guys worked mucho (lots) speed to finish up our cementing (about 6-7 yards), while the rest of them headed home and got ready for the evening with the dorm students. We finished cementing a little late but we still finished with precision and excellence.

We headed up to the local school for a fiesta (party)! A skit was put on by the students, and sparks flew…. Literally! For real, fireworks were lit on the stage. Yes, the building could have burnt but the Lord was there. Then we all sang cinco songs for the students, and Derek became a rock star. Every, I mean… every girl wanted a picture with him.

Kyle Meck and Peter Rowe