Monday

Again on Monday morning it was pouring rain! We had to rearrange our schedule and create some indoor projects- which weren’t difficult to find. One group- David A, Glenn, Dave G, and I painted at the Presbyterian school. Another group- Joni, Annette, Greg, and Sean painted in the Catholic school. The third group- Tamera and Dawn worked on training some of the students on using the new computer lab in the Catholic Cristo Rey school. The students loved working on the computers! They were so excited to learn how to type and how to use the computer, even basic programs like Word. It was so fun to see them be so excited about using the computers! It was definitely a reward that was well worth the wait and the work of installing the computer lab! In the afternoon Tamera was also able to give some computer instruction to the teachers, which they enjoyed.

For lunch we had the most interesting thing that any of us has eaten in Belize...dumpling soup with beans and pigtail. Yes, you read that right...colita or pigtail! It was okay, but it was difficult to find the meat among all of the fat. Sounds pretty gross, huh!? We tried really hard to eat it and like it so that we wouldn’t offend Desi, but it was difficult! When Raffi told us how much it costs to buy pigtail, we felt like spoiled American brats! He said that a family might buy it just once a month- 1 pound for 10 people because of the cost. It said it’s kind of like a delicacy here.

After lunch we finished up some of the projects we’d started in the morning and then began to get ready for the Kid’s Bible Camp that we had organized. We had about 50 kids come and they had a blast! We had a great time teaching them new crafts, games, and learning a Bible story given by Mary (Tamera).

Overall we had a great day and were so thankful that it stopped raining in time for the Kid’s Camp. It was much more fun and not quite so difficult to have the camp since we could be outside.