Tuesday - touring around

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Yesterday, Tuesday, we got up at 4 am.....thanks to the birds. They sang and sang and sang. It was like you were turning up the volume until 5 am and then turning it back down again until 6 am. We knew it was going to stop because of what we learned about birds in Four Winds!!

We had a great breakfast - scrambled eggs, pancakes, watermelon and papaya. Delicious!

We filed into the vans to check out all the sites - some that were completed last year and some that we are going to work on this year.

The PT (Physical Therapy) Center that was made last year was great. It was painted a pink/orange and had 3 rooms inside. One room had a table and a floor/mat space with some big balls, an office and a room with a couple tables for drawing, arts and crafts. There was a family there at the time. The mom was waiting in the entry hall sitting on a chair while her 3 sons were drawing. The boys were 6, 4 and 2 and they were there for therapy for the 6 year old. We weren´t really sure what was wrong with him but we know he couldn´t speak.

When they were finished, the mom put the 2 year old in the basket of her bike, the 4 year was standing on the bike holding onto the handle bars, the mom was pushing the biks and the 6 year old was walking.

The plan is to made a fairly large addition which would entail digging A LOT, a foundation (rebar etc) cement blocks etc. Quite a job!

Next we went to a school that we are going to repaint this year. It was locked because the kids are all on hoiliday (since Christmas......can you imagine?). But we could see that it needed a new paint job. It needed to be cleaned up as well!!!

Driving through these little streets are amazing. Mangey dogs are everywhere. Some places look well kept and as thought people have a little bit of money and others look barely liveable. But the one thing that Scott keeps saying is that people are not as poor as he thought they would be.

Next we went to lunch at the Tela Beach Club. It was nothing like any beach club that you might think of....but on the beach - beautiful white sand and no one around. We learned that lots of Canadians come here and just park themselves for weeks at a time. It was a long, very bumpy road out there with nothing around. So it meant you couldn´t even walk around town. There was no town out there.

For lunch we had 3 of the largest platters of delicious food - all sorts of seafood - shrimps, grilled fish, crab legs, chicken done every way, and lots of meats, rice with beans, plantains (which are like their version of potato chips) and fruit. We were all bummed we didn´t have on our suits.

From there we went to a school called San Juan where the group had worked last year. It looked very run down (again because they were not in school) and supposedely would have 400 students there in a couple weeks. Wait until you see the pictures....we took pictures into the classrooms too. You just won´t believe it!