Saturday morning

We had a hot and busy day yesterday and didn't get into town to update.  I wrote "Move my picture, Miss" and forgot to explain!  When the children in San Lucas want us to take their picture they say, "Move my picture!"  I have never heard that expression before in any other village. Of course, after we take their picture they have to check it out on the camera and many of the kids have had fun getting to take pictures with our cameras, I know those pictures are my favorites.

 

Friday was a busy day. The construction crew was working at the Hope Center in PG. I wish I could post pictures now to try and show how rough the work was for them.  They were pouring a concrete roof on a building. This meant that the concrete had to be passed up some makeshift scaffolding by the five gallon bucket full, then dumped into a wheelbarrow and rolled across the roof to be emptied.  All this out in the extreme heat, humidity and sun.  Rough work to say the least!  Our guys plus Donna and Sam were troopers.  Donna and Randy were on the bucket brigade passing concrete up to the roof and Sam was the master of the wheelbarrow.  The local guys were impressed by how hard Donna and Sam were working, women do not usually work on construction in Belize. We think Sam may have a marriage proposal in the works from Samuel Ack who worked with her all day on the site.

 

The teachers were told that there would be about 20 kids each in two sessions of Art Camp. Imagine our surprise when only five kids showed up!  When we asked one of the girls why her friends weren't there she looked at us like we were crazy and said, "It's summer!"  Despite the small crowd, we had lots of fun.We made beaded crossed, cookie color wheels, pipe cleaner animals and did some water color painting.  It was a great day. In the afternoon a few more kids showed up, thirteen all together.  We had lots of goodies to hand out and there were hugs all around at the end of the day.

 

Last night we were treated to a party at Dorla's house in honor of Donisio's graduation.  Dorla has a fabulous rooftop party deck and it was a beautiful evening to sit outside.

 

Right now we are hanging out in PG for a couple of hours to shop at the Farmer's Market.  We check into Tranquility Lodge this afternoon and will be taking a chocolate tour (seeing the process of making chocolate from the Cacao plant to the candy bar!)

The week has gone too fast, I am looking forward to these last days in Belize with this amazing group of people.  The word of the week is Bantiox (thank you in Kekchi). We have so many reasons to say BANTIOX!