Patrick's Day!
We started off the day with eggs and coffee. We departed from the hotel around seven am to head to our designated work sites. My group arrived and got straight to work, putting holes in rocks and moving cinder blocks. Ten am was the nearby school's recess time. Ten or so children came running to the site screaming "Jugamos!" Parker and I joined our teams and went to work.
I wasn't feeling too hot and made several mistakes, including tripping on the ball and falling on my tailbone. Five kids proceed to jump on me to see if I was okay--not the most fun moment. After the game, we went back to work and at noon, we had lunch: mystery chicken sandwiches and carbonated pineapple juice. We ended the work day early to being our hour drive up and down the mountains to the civil war museum in Rabinal. We walked ten or so minutes to the museum through a beautiful town. The civil war museum was pretty difficulty to process; it consisted of the background of how the war started and pictures of many victims. There was also a library with more information on the war. [Ed. note: photography was not allowed in the museum.]
After the museum, we stopped for ice cream and water and began the journey back to the hotel. We got back around five and prepared for dinner at six. We had rice and chicken for dinner and we were joined by our Habitat host Ambrosio and his two kids, Diego and Kati. Ambrosio has been with us the entire trip and sadly had to depart due to another Habitat event on Friday. We said our goodbyes and quickly hurried off to bed.
We started off the day with eggs and coffee. We departed from the hotel around seven am to head to our designated work sites. My group arrived and got straight to work, putting holes in rocks and moving cinder blocks. Ten am was the nearby school's recess time. Ten or so children came running to the site screaming "Jugamos!" Parker and I joined our teams and went to work.
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| Santa Marta Elementary versus the Gringos |
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| The shooter became Pat's fast friend: Oscar |
I wasn't feeling too hot and made several mistakes, including tripping on the ball and falling on my tailbone. Five kids proceed to jump on me to see if I was okay--not the most fun moment. After the game, we went back to work and at noon, we had lunch: mystery chicken sandwiches and carbonated pineapple juice. We ended the work day early to being our hour drive up and down the mountains to the civil war museum in Rabinal. We walked ten or so minutes to the museum through a beautiful town. The civil war museum was pretty difficulty to process; it consisted of the background of how the war started and pictures of many victims. There was also a library with more information on the war. [Ed. note: photography was not allowed in the museum.]
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| Walk to museum. Note Rigoberta Menchu's name on the wall. |
After the museum, we stopped for ice cream and water and began the journey back to the hotel. We got back around five and prepared for dinner at six. We had rice and chicken for dinner and we were joined by our Habitat host Ambrosio and his two kids, Diego and Kati. Ambrosio has been with us the entire trip and sadly had to depart due to another Habitat event on Friday. We said our goodbyes and quickly hurried off to bed.
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