Wow, so I can't believe that it's already Friday! This week has flown by! The rest of our evening on Thursday was spent hanging out with the home kids. Spending time with them this week has been such a blessing. Each of their personalities are so diffferent and they are the greatest group of kids ever. Every night we have devotions together then we play...and play hard until bedtime! Hanging out with them after dinner and devos is always full of tons of giggles, plenty of piggy back rides, soccer, frisbee, and tickle wars! Sure beats sitting on facebook or watching tv :)
On Friday we took a trip to Antigua, a really neat city in Guatemala! We started the day off with chapel with the school kids, then we headed out to Antigua. Rather than eating our normal breakfast of toast, we had brunch at a sweet restaurant (named "The Fork" en espanol, of course) way on top of a mountain overlooking not one, not two, but THREE volcanoes! The view was breathtaking and the food was delicious! Then we ventured to the city for some shopping...a lot of shopping. We learned that Antigua has a central park, and that was our meeting place. Then off we went to the artisan market to spend the sum of our cash, praise the Lord that they took our American dollars! After buying enough souvenirs to fill Jamie's massive army bag, we took a little break for some Guatemalan McDonalds. Now when you think of McDonalds, you're probably imagining a small fast food place with slow service and a lack of seating...but oh no, not in Guatemala. They took the saying 'go big or go home' to heart. This place had a courtyard, waiters, a cafe just for the coffee drinks, and excellent service. Way to go Antigua McDonalds! We were able to explore the city some and Kaiser took some really great pictures. What a day, we hopped into the van and traveled back to La Senda, full tummies, empty wallets, an assortment of souvenirs and all!
We had dinner with the home kids and got to spend more time with them just having a blast! Since it was Friday we got to have movie night! We watching "Change of Plans" a heartwarming production brought to you by Walmart...what a winner ;) ! Then we hugged the kiddos goodnight, and spent some time with our team just being so silly! Tonight is going to be great, you'll hear all about it later!!
With love from Guatemala,
Lindsey
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Choco Chiwi
So, one of the things about running around like crazy people all day is that we eat all the time. Which makes it very nice that Pam and Steve got us tons of food for the week. And I mean tons! Including awesome old-school cereals like Cookie Crisp and Choco Chiwi's. Aside from eating, yesterday was another big work day filled with more teaching, baking banana and strawberry bread, painting a fence, cleaning gutters, washing more sheets and towels, and helping kids with English in the school. We cooked spaghetti for the kids in the home and then played lots and lots of ultimate frisbee. Some of the boys are really good! They would love playing intramurals at Asbury :) Today we are trying to get as much work done during the school day since this is our last main work day before our trip to Antigua tomorrow. So far today, a few of us have had to test out our teaching skills because one of the English teachers didn't show up. Jamie is in charge of devotions all day and so far has done a great job. Hopefully we'll get to write a little more later. But as for now, Christo VIVE, a su nombre GLORIA, a su gloria VICTORIA, a su victoria AMEN.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Day 2 Guatemala
Day 2,
Our first full day was a complete success, full of work and fun. We started off early at 7:45 with morning devotions with the entire school. Arlie led devos and talked about how we are a lot like seeds. Though we are small, once given love and care, we can do big things. Just like a seed when it's been taken care of can make a big tree. After, we helped the kids throughout the day with their English, math, and other school activities. In our down time we helped out around La Senda where ever we could, painting, cleaning, moving large scraps of metal and wood, and organizing. At 3:15 the students ended their school day and we helped the kids that stay at La Senda with their chores followed by playing some soccer and ultimate frisbee. They really enjoy sports and having fun, they are all so full of joy and laughter. Dinner came around and our team enjoyed dinner in our area of living and went to our night devotions which Katie led. She spoke on love and forgiveness and how Jesus loves us no matter what we have done. She pointed out how Jesus never stopped loving Peter even after Peter denied him three times. It was very uplifting and always refreshing to here what a merciful God we have. Our night devos were followed by dessert which was ice cream with carmel and little apple pies. The ice cream down here is so good! After we spend time just playing with the kids till bed time around 8. It's crazy how much energy these kids have! We played the Guatemalan form of hide and seek where you run and hide and once the person who is "it" tries to find every one, it's your job to run to the center of our playing area and shout out in spanish, "Chili quarta," which in English translate into spicy room before you are caught, if you make it your safe the rest of the game. We determined the spicy room kind of means hot spot. It was loads of fun because there are so many great places to hide and the kids always help us find the best spots. Bed time came soon enough and we retreated to our rooms for some great talks with out team with popcorn and lots of stories. As soon as our heads hit the pillows I think we all fell straight to sleep. Though our day was full of work, it never really felt like work because it was fun and we did it all to the glory of God.
7/31/12
-Jamie
Our first full day was a complete success, full of work and fun. We started off early at 7:45 with morning devotions with the entire school. Arlie led devos and talked about how we are a lot like seeds. Though we are small, once given love and care, we can do big things. Just like a seed when it's been taken care of can make a big tree. After, we helped the kids throughout the day with their English, math, and other school activities. In our down time we helped out around La Senda where ever we could, painting, cleaning, moving large scraps of metal and wood, and organizing. At 3:15 the students ended their school day and we helped the kids that stay at La Senda with their chores followed by playing some soccer and ultimate frisbee. They really enjoy sports and having fun, they are all so full of joy and laughter. Dinner came around and our team enjoyed dinner in our area of living and went to our night devotions which Katie led. She spoke on love and forgiveness and how Jesus loves us no matter what we have done. She pointed out how Jesus never stopped loving Peter even after Peter denied him three times. It was very uplifting and always refreshing to here what a merciful God we have. Our night devos were followed by dessert which was ice cream with carmel and little apple pies. The ice cream down here is so good! After we spend time just playing with the kids till bed time around 8. It's crazy how much energy these kids have! We played the Guatemalan form of hide and seek where you run and hide and once the person who is "it" tries to find every one, it's your job to run to the center of our playing area and shout out in spanish, "Chili quarta," which in English translate into spicy room before you are caught, if you make it your safe the rest of the game. We determined the spicy room kind of means hot spot. It was loads of fun because there are so many great places to hide and the kids always help us find the best spots. Bed time came soon enough and we retreated to our rooms for some great talks with out team with popcorn and lots of stories. As soon as our heads hit the pillows I think we all fell straight to sleep. Though our day was full of work, it never really felt like work because it was fun and we did it all to the glory of God.
7/31/12
-Jamie
Christo Vive
Greetings friends. We just got some internet time so hopefully our team member Jamie will update ya'll about our day yesterday soon! We're having a wonderful time!
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