We stuffed 29 people in
a 10 passenger bus
We rode a ferry to get
to an island that we then lived on for a month
Carter steered the
ferry.
Micah and I re-enacted
a scene from titanic.
We spent 3 days
chillin’ in hammocks gazing out over lake Nicaragua.
I could not find
contact solution anywhere on our island, someone had to go to the mainland for
it.
We got super creative
with crossfit workouts: rocks, walls,
cinderblocks, wells, basketball courts…etc, all with the backdrop of a
beautiful lake.
We were able to swim in
the lake daily.
We ate rice and beans
or beans and rice at every, and I mean every, meal!
I ate chicken livers
and some sort of soy “meat.”
We craved our cold
showers due to a constant layer of sweat.
I sweat more than I
ever have before in my life.
I slept on a mattress
on the floor with my sleeping pad on top of it so my butt wouldn’t sink to the
floor.
I slept on the floor
because my top bunk bed was so stinkin’ hot.
I may or may not have
almost flooded our bathroom whilst trying to shave.
I also may have busted
our sink, which never truly got fixed so water leaked into a plastic container
for the rest of the month.
I fell in a hole and
sprained my ankle which of course made Kristin think I dropped down in the
grass to do some crunches which made squad leader megan think she was gonna be
blessed with a lighter weight. Logic
train done jumped the tracks!
I ate a mango out of
the skin and ended up with poison oak on and around my lips.
We ripped a roof off a
huge pavilion with a rope, which in turn ripped the skin off 3 of my fingers.
I had to hand wash my
clothes….again.
I craved fruit and
veggies because we very rarely had any.
A member of team hebron
( the other team we served with) was attacked by “no-see-ums”…yes folks they do
exist and no I do not know what they look like cuz you can’t actually see
them! She was covered shoulders to toes
with hundreds of bites.
Jacob went for a walk
with Christina in the water.
Robby then began to
teach Jacob how to swim.
I hobbled over rocks to
reach the smush, the squishie, the muck out in the lake.
I witnessed C. young
giving herself a mud bath with the smush, the squishie, the muck.
I rooted for the
lizards over the bugs.
We had armies of tiny
ants take over our room until Helen armed us with killer ant spray!
We used my mosquito net
as a screen door.
I got to sleep on a
whole matching set of pink plaid sheets.
Doesn’t sound like much but I was the only one with a matching set and
they were pink!!
There were the most
beautiful sunsets over the water.
We hung our clean
laundry on barbed wire to dry…leaves marks on your clothes, but nothing blows
off the line.
I watched as a boy
climbed to the top of a mango tree, picked mangos and chucked them down so that
the girls could catch them in a bath towel.
We were blessed to hang
out and play with some of the cutest kiddos in the world! (so far, hehe)
I danced on a dance
floor made of palm fronds.
Kristin crashed a
camouflaged hammock with a little help from ty.
We rode around in a
busted up bus and loved every minute of it cuz it saved us $.30 (yes friends,
that says 30 cents).
We hoed, raked,
shoveled, planted and weeded mucho mucho in the garden.
I got 5 Prednisone
pills for 30 cordobas…that’s about $1.30 in us terms.
We were assigned
kitchen patrol with a Nicaraguan women who wanted zero help in the kitchen so
Christina and I swept off the ceiling and the porch.
