First week con voluntarios

Hi Everybody!

This week was our first week with other volunteers! We welcomed Amy, Taylor, and Britney from Hopkinton, NH. They are our age. Dennis and Jim are from VT. They are super funny and always wanting to get our opinion on everything! Two very sweet guys. Also Jim, Ed, and Frank from Texas. They are working on wiring a lot of the schools and are also super nice. It has been great to have more people along!

Construction on the playground went pretty well, I was sick for most of it. Towards the end, our contractor Marco started to slack off a little bit. He would show up, sya he had another project to do, and then leave... giving us nothing to do without his guidance. After he blew us off one day, the teachers took control and called in another contractor. He arrived and told us that he advised that we put the playground in the ground so it was more stable. He proceeded to dig eight holes on the schoolyard. We accidentally struck a water pipe, so it was a huge mud pile! So then, Marco shows up... three hours late! They start fighting about who{s project this is, and how Marco thinks that these holes are pointless. It is starting to get really funny and they are calling eachother stupid bitches and stuff. It was really really funny, and we ended up firing marco on the spot. We put the playground in the newly cemented holes tomorrow.

School started today at one of the projects we have been working on. The NH girls and Texas Jim (Jimbo) had brought a lot of toys and clothing, so we distributed everything and sang happy birthday to Colleen. The kids were so happy and would not let go of us. At one point I had a child attached to every finger, and they were all pullig different directions. Jim had brought some of his daughter{s baby clothes... so coll al em and I walked through their village looking for babies to give clothes to. It was really fun and rewarding to see the niños so happy.

We have also made a lot of friends our own age here. The principal of Buenos Aires school has a daughter named Carol who is seventeen, and she helps us translate. She is very shy, but suyper nice also. We met her friends Daisy, Raul, and Carlos too. They are all very nice. Daisy goes to a bilingual school in La Ceiba which is two hours away. Yesterday she threw colleen a surprise party at her house! It is beautiful! She left for school tday for the next two weeks. Next year daisy will move to Fort Meyers to attend college. Raul is also super sweet. We are going to play tennis with him tomorrow at the hotel. He is in college in La Ceiba right now, but is transferrig to a school in michigan this fall. Everyone speaks very good english.

Anyways, that is the news from this week. We have to go and prepare for Colls birthday dinner!

Keep the comments and emails coming, I love to hear from you guys!

xoxo,
Zari