Thursday

Wow! Can´t believe that my time in Trullijo is nearly over. We have made such great progress with the community center. While the men have be constructing the building, the women have been out painting houses. How do they decide who gets their house painted. The way they get the houses painted is if the adult or adults are involved with a bible study with the local church group in the barrio. It might sound odd to be painting mud and clay bricks.....but in a funny way it really makes these modest accomodations look much better.

Speaking of the community center. We have all of the walls up! It was another exhausting day. The say it has been unusually warm in the area. This is actually their winter. Humidity is high but the temps are bearable. It looks like we will be starting to put the siding on the building tomorrow.

After lunch today the women in our group held a hygiene class for the women of the barrio. They taught them some basic hygiene....things we take for granted and then taught them a little about cleaning up simple wounds...cuts, scrapes etc.....

The recreation for the afternoon was to finish up the soccer tournament. We had a brand new soccer ball for the winners of the older kids game. The younger kids got t-shirts....some candy and an orange or two.

I think it is going to be very hard and emotional to leave these kids after our day is done tomorrow. We have become so attached and they just crave the attention. It´s going to be difficult knowing that we won´t be going back again this year. It is my hope to come back next year.

That ´s it for tonight....I´ll leave an entry tomorrow night and then it´s headed home. I´m really looking forward to that too! Maybe I can sneak one or two kids home with me!!!!!!!! I have really fallen for quite a few of them!!!

Good night!

Mitch