GREETINGS 🙂 🙂
We spent our first week in Guatemala in Panajachel, and we have since dispersed all over the country. During our time in Panajachel, we were able to spend a lot of time with the rest of I SQUAD and we learned more about what we are going to be doing during our 11 months on the World Race.
I am happy to report that all of Team NEON is all doing well 🙂 As proof, here we are below pretending to be a boy band.
We were also able to celebrate our first birthday on the field!! Will Miller, our wonderful team leader, turned 23 last week, and we had an awesome time. His birthday happened to fall on the day that our whole squad got to spend at this amazing resort! We went swimming and had a blast. It was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.
This past Saturday, Team NEON said goodbye to the remainder of I Squad, and we headed to Puerto Barrio, Guatemala. It took us all day by bus, and we are now living along the Caribbean coast. We are teamed up with Agape8 for the month, so there are now 15 of us together, living in a pretty sweet house sharing one bathroom. We are learning how things work on the World Race. Everything from living on $3.75 a day, to learning to embrace the smell of sweat. Guatemala is hot, hot, hot. We have been working hard! We are going to be spending a lot of time working in an orphanage here, which is amaaaazing! I love the kids, they are so happy to hang out with us, and they show no mercy when we play soccer. I got schooled by a ten year old today.
Oh, and I love the animals here. Geckos are everywhere promoting cheap car insurance, and the cows here have rabbit ears. Awesome.
To those of you who have been sending encouraging words and prayers, thank you SOO much, it means the world to me. Please keep our squad in your prayers! Hope all is well back in the homeland! Miss and love you guys!
