Friday, March 02, 2007
Almost Done!
Today will be the last blog that I write. We will be leaving tomorrow around 8:30am and getting on the plane at 11:00am or 12:00pm. So today the men are finishing up their jobs on the church and the women are going to clean and start packing stuff up.
Yesterday the men had another hot day, and when they came back for lunch they brought along with them the masons that have been helping with the church. They were very quiet, but they had no problem eating a lot of food. After lunch back to building they went, mean while the women cleaned, washed clothes, played with the kids that are too young to go to school, and organized the clothes and toiletry room for Miss Lerma (the cook and director while Miss Joans is away).
Devotions were held once again by Cindy and they were fun as usual. This time we played Simon says and the kids seemed not to listen very well. After devotions we put the kids to bed and last night they were pretty wound up and did not want to go to sleep. Darlene had to stand in front of the older girls room for a long time before they would go to sleep.
Yesterday the men had another hot day, and when they came back for lunch they brought along with them the masons that have been helping with the church. They were very quiet, but they had no problem eating a lot of food. After lunch back to building they went, mean while the women cleaned, washed clothes, played with the kids that are too young to go to school, and organized the clothes and toiletry room for Miss Lerma (the cook and director while Miss Joans is away).
Devotions were held once again by Cindy and they were fun as usual. This time we played Simon says and the kids seemed not to listen very well. After devotions we put the kids to bed and last night they were pretty wound up and did not want to go to sleep. Darlene had to stand in front of the older girls room for a long time before they would go to sleep.
Tonight we are going to have a little party with the kids and we are going to bake them a cake. Since we have been trying their food a lot this week we decided to let then try our food. This will also give us a chance to say good bye to them, because we will not have much of a chance tomorrow morning.
Although we are ready to come home to some cooler weather and where their are less bugs that bite, we are going to leave with all of these children in our hearts. We will also take home new friendships within our church family and within the workers and children that we have come in contact with in Belize. Thank you for reading my blog and see you Sunday at church... Ruth Smith
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Back to Work!!
Everyone is back to work today, and we all had a great day sight seeing. We first went to the Mayan Ruins. How a group of people could build such beautiful buildings without today's modern technology is very talented. To get to and from the ruins we had to take a ferry across the river. Around the river we seen huge iguanas, nothing like the lizards that we have at home. We then went to Spanish lookout which is a town of it's own. They have their own churches, stores, and restaurants. There we ate lunch,did a little shopping,and got homemade ice cream, which was well needed to cool all of down from the scorching heat. After that we went to the Amish community, it was a lot like the Amish at home. We stopped at one of their wood mills, and it was pretty interesting to all the men but I think the women were tired and ready to go back to the house and relax.
Once we got back to the house we all had a lite supper and nice cold showers to cool us off. Yesterday was the hottest day of the week, I'm glad that the men did not have to work on the church. Once we all got cleaned up we headed to the house for devotions. Devotions were again done by Cindy, and she had a lesson on being kind and a guessing for everyone to play. Matt and I were already at the house before devotions having fun and playing with the kids, and I do believe that almost all the older girls have taken a liking to him. They all gang up on him and chase him around the property or soak him in water.
There are also some more sick kids. We had three vomit last night and a couple with some headaches, but they seam to be feeling better this morning and only one is staying home from school.
We only have two and half more days and I believe everyone is starting to miss home. But I know it will be hard for some of us to leave because we do not want to leave these kids who need to be loved and helped. If we could bring them all home I think we would to give them a home and family. Well be back tomorrow... Ruth Smith
