Today we worked at Jazmin. It was a drive - abt 30 km - and I was in the back seat of the van, middle seat....not the most ideal of seats but it was ok. We were 16 in all in that van. Anyway, we got there and all we saw was a one room school house (painted green) and a thatched roof open space which was the second classroom.
70 children go to school here - it is so hard to believe that they can all fit! So the job here is to make another room - a free standing new building to accomodate more children.
When we got there there were 3 walls - just about half way up - of cement blocks with open spaces for windows. We worked on building the 4th wall - sifting sand (throwing it onto a screen with a shovel which keeps out the bigger stones and pebbles), collecting these bigger stones and pebbles and filling them in the center hole of the cement blocks, carrying cement blocks around, mixing, filling in cement etc.
It was HOT!
Around noon I went with Linda, Dave and Colleen to see this woman Juanita who lives about a mile down the road from the school - the mission was to deliver her a wheelchair. Wait until you see the pictures of where she lived! She was in a plastic garden chair because she had a broken femur and a yucky long term infection at the bottom of her leg. She moved around in her little shack in this green chair. Dave wheeled in the wheelchair and she got herself right into it and was all smiles, She finally had some mobility and a much more comfortable chair.
Colleen and Linda gave her a framed picture of the family who donated the wheelchair - the daughter had Down's Syndrom and had died last year. How amazing that Juanita now has this picture in her little house as a reminder everyday of the young woman who once used that wheelchair.
Colleen the took her outside - we think she hadn't been outside for many years. She was so thankful and all smiles.
She then asked for a cell phone!
There is much more to her story but will have to write about it later.
Back at the school we had lunch (plates of fried chicken, rice and potatoe salad). And of course lots of water.
We stopped working around 2:30 because we had to go the dedication of the Physical Therapy Buliding. That's an entirely new entry which I will have to do a new entry.
Back at the hotel around 5, swimming in the ocean, catching the waves. Dinner next door and our favorite waiter from last year was there - Mr. Dick!
He calls me Miss Scott.
3 comments:
I can't wait to hear more!!! Miss you!! Michelle Hi to Scott.
I am off to VCS for the RAAM presentation .... you sound busy and like you are enjoying every moment! Can't wait to hear all the stories ... miss you ... Michelle
ps More freezing rain with the possibility of .25 inches of ICE ... things are getting cancelled!
Hello Honduras ... all is well up here in VT. The ice storm was not nearly what they projected and now the sun is out and shining and the snow is melting off the roof. The lifts are turning although there was a wind hold for a while. Colby took the morning off to ski with Tyler, Nathan, and Eli and will join GMVS in the afternoon for gs training.
You need to do a little sand writing this afternoon .... "GO PATS" ... surely it will send a little luck out to Arizona for the Big Game tomorrow night.
Hi to everyone! Michelle
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