Tuesday

The construction team worked all day to put the horizontal rebar in the foundation and then put rocks back into the hole to support the rebar. They plan to pour the concrete tomorrow and will be assisted by about 10 men from the  village.  They had fun with the kids at lunchtime and recess.

 

Mary, Shannon and Rose spent the day working at the hospital in Punta Gorda, they worked with Fran in the ER.  They were impressed with the new computer system  in the hospital that makes charting the patients easier.  They had a slow day and only saw three patients all day, including a four month old baby with pneumonia.  They all have a renewed appreciation for the medical care that we all have in the USA.

 

Cathy, Father Don, Jerry and Anita all went to San Marcos. The children and teachers were so welcoming and remembered us from last year.  In a school of over 220 children, it is a challenge to get all of the pictures of the children taken in one day, but Cathy did a great job and finished them all. Right now she is back at the retreat center getting the pictures printed so we can deliver them later in the week.  Last year the kids loved the pipe cleaner people/monkeys that we made so this year we made pipe cleaner lizards with several classes.The library in San Marcos is complete (we put the walls up last year) and Father Don got to spend the day in  it working with small groups of students.  The library looks great, will post some pictures after we get back.  Jerry worked with the oldest students all day (Standard 6-our 8th grade), teaching a lesson on the continents and mapping out the planets by pacing across the soccer field.

At Blue Creek, Bridget, Peter, Mike D and Anne got the pictures taken and taught the health and hygiene lessons.  We will be in Blue Creek for the rest of the week, and the principal asked Peter to take over for a missing teacher and teach the Standard 3 class (about our 5th grade level). We have given him lots of fun suggestions to try, including musical chairs!! We will be waiting for pictures of that!

Kathy and Ann spent the day working with Dorla. They took pictures  of  the basket making process from harvesting the jipi-japa  palms to the weaving of baskets  for the SocioEconomic Outreach program.

 

While you were all snowed in today, we enjoyed beautiful 85 degree weather, although it was a bit cloudy.  Some of us got a little bit of rain around lunchtime, and then the sky cleared and it was perfectly clear after that.  A few people are even a bit sunburned!