Well, it looks like our whole team is off to the coast for five days to work at a school! It's going to be interesting. This won't be a very long post because I have to pack for it still, and I need to finish my laundry. I'll just give you a bit of an update on what's happening.
I've finished my first placement, and it was so amazing...I'm going to miss it there so much! The kids were awesome, and on the last day I was able to go with the two older classes on a field trip...like a real field trip. We went to Springfield, a community complete with no electricity, a school where the boys and girls have separate entrances, and where the men drop their work and help eachother raise barns. To top it all off, we had to take a five mile trek into the heart of the jungle on horrible roads, and i was sitting in the back of a pickup truck. While we were there we climbed a mountain...literally. I was rather scared for my life, and to get to the mountain we had to walk through a cow pasture. My poor poor pants and flip flops...but it was really cool to see the view at the top! After that we drove to the Blue Hole and to the cave I was just at last Saturday, but it was still neat to do with all the students.
This weekend our whole team took a break...we spent our time doing laundry and swimming in our pool that is finally up and running! Yesterday and today the whole team has been hard at work around the base...organizing a vbs program we're hosting here next week (I'm doing arts and crafts with Rachel and Aislin) and we've been doing general maintenance around the base too. We've been scrubbing walls, bleaching sidewalks, sweeping dorms, the whole nine yards. On Monday I was moving a pile of wood to the burn pile, and when I was almost at the bottom I lifted a plank of wood and underneath it was a big...black and orange...hairy...TARANTULA! I kind of yelled...a lot. Then John, who works at YWAM, poked it with a stick and it started running and he squished it. It wasn't pleasant, let me tell you. The worst part is that it was only a baby, and where I had found it there was a dead one that it had been feeding on. EW.
My first experience with a tarantula! I can't believe it took a whole month for me to see one. But I almost TOUCHED it. EW.
So next week we're running the VBS program here, and then after that I'm beginning my second three-week placement. I'm going to be working at King's Children's Home with Aislin. It's really close to the base so I'm going to be living at YWAM during that time. It's going to be pretty fun actually...but I'm not too excited about the cold showers.
That's about it from me! Oh, and I'm seventeen tomorrow!! yay!
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Hi Elena, happy 17th. So tell me, what's it like to have your birthday fall on when you're in another country and far from home? Oh wait, I already know.
happy birthday elena, hope everything's going well for ya.
have a good one.
wow elena. sounds amazing. i miss you tons. i can't even explain it to you right now. i want to say more to you, but i've said so much in your email. i'll send another one to you this weekend hopefully! keep smiling at the belize video camera ;) cause i'm watching every second of those belize week videos for you. happy birthday. hope 17 is just as amazing as 16. i know this isn't a big 16, but this year is going to be a hugely good 17th year. love you.
(your secret admirer ;))
happy birthday cousin!
keep it real, 17 real.
have fun
Happy 17th :) Oh and why are all the kids in your photos in belize white kids?
this sounds a lot like a dreamland. not like 'o man, he's dreamy' or like 'you live a dream' but like 'it seems so different and rather surreal that it feels like the feeling when you wake up after a really weird dream'.
but sounds great! (Except for the TARANTULA!!!!!!!!! ewiieee!!)
looove
tj
ps. wow that didnt make nearly as much sense in written form as it did in my head. whoops.
looooooooove.!
you make it sound as though tarantula's carry horrible killer diseases down there, that you'll catch just from touching one. although i have to admit, i'm pretty scared of spiders. happy birthday!!(even though it's a little late), and i hope you're having fun.
John.
tarantulaaaaa!! im proud of you... i think i would have fainted. aha.
anyaways...sounds pretty awesome once again!! can't wait to hear about the week at the school on the "coast".
love
abram...they're mennonites and they all have relatives in Ontario...Almer (sp?) to be exact. They all ask me if i know their grandparents and i say "there are 33 million people in canada...i can't say that I've met them before."
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