I must apologize to all my followers, LO SIENTO. I’m proving to be really bad at this blog-updating thing.
It’s not for lack of time. We generally have a few hours in the afternoon that I could blog every day if I wanted to. But I am so exhausted that I usually end up taking a nap, intending to refresh myself with about 20 minutes of shut-eye. Then the heat sucks me in, and steals all the energy I have had and I end up sleeping for two or three hours. (Or pseudo-sleeping, really only ending up with the 20 minutes I intended in 3-5 minute segments.)
And it’s not for lack of content. We have been doing a lot. And a lot of different stuff at that. Sundays are the only day that I could actually tell you what we are going to do. The rest of the days we wake up with a really vague idea of what is about to happen and figure the rest out when we get there. Or we are woken up when someone is here to pick us up, after we’ve been told we don’t have anything until PM. All the girls on our team will be excellent wives, because they have learned how to be up and ready to go in minutes.
We worked with the teachers at a school to clean classrooms and common areas the week before kids went back to school from summer break. We also helped to decorate classrooms to prepare for the kiddos and cleaned/replanted flower beds around the courtyard. A few days later we painted the outdoor gym/auditorium. On the first day of school we went between the morning and afternoon session to do some more cleaning (my specific task was the sink, which was covered in blue paint from some project that had happened earlier that morning. And when I say covered, I mean COVERED), to paint the basketball court and help decorate the walkways with freshly cleaned potted plants.
We attended a youth leadership meeting that I spoke about in my last blog, Sueno Urbano. It was my favorite ministry thus far. Afterward we went to Taco Bell with one of the adult leaders, Raquel. What a hoot. We spoke a lot of Spanglish, and laughed until our stomachs hurt. Also, she drove six people home in her two door hatchback. We scraped a lot of speed bumps, and she joked about how we had eaten too many tacos every time. 🙂
This morning we painted two of the children’s rooms at our host church, Templo Cristiano. We also started working on a mural for the outside wall of the building. Helena and Caitlin spent the day sketching it and we will go back to paint it sometime later this week. Hopefully it doesn’t rain.
We were supposed to have a clown lesson, yes a clown lesson, at 4:00. One of the pastor’s son dresses up as a clown as a way to talk to children about Jesus. The last time we met with him we started two hours late. Right now it’s 4:15. We’ll see what happens! We are also going to a church service tonight. We don’t know where exactly, or what exactly we will be doing. Not knowing what is going to happen until you get there is half the fun, (and sometimes half the frustrations). But our team has gotten really good at going with the flow. It is a way better option than being frustrated 24/7 and having no control to change it.
I will make a solid attempt to be better at blog updates. It shouldn’t be so hard!
