Caraballo Team 2 (Monday)

Team #2's experience has been very different than the first team's so far.

Yesterday, it rained during beach day for most of the afternoon (which was still fun!)

Today, it rained most of from about 12:30 until 5:30. The had a massive effect on our work.

In the morning when we got to the school, we went on a tour of the surrounding area. There is so much to say about it, that a blog would never do it justice. On the "field trip" we say some pretty extreme poverty, as well as getting a hint of some of the social, political, & systemic problems that hold people there.

Once we got to work, we split into 3 team. One team worked on prepping the dinning hall to pour a new concrete floor. A second team started loading up the black dirt that was dug up in order to put in the footing we helped pour last week. Once it was in a wheel barrow, it had to be take through a crazy obstacle course of ramps, hills, mud & more in order to make its way to the future garden area (where they want to use the dirt to grow banana trees). The third team clean off a new place to mix mortar, and began to pile up the supplies needed.

Around 12 we had lunch, and got to see their monthly birthday celebration. Many of the kids have never had such celebrations before, so it is fun to see how excited they get. They also celebrated Kip & Kate, two of our team members whose birthday's are this week!

After a long lunch of playing with kids, we tried to get back to work, but it was raining very consistently.

We were able to move some dirt in the rain, but our work was definitely slowed down.

On the was to school, we have to cross a river without a bridge. Because of the rain, the river rose so high, that only one of our vehicles could not make it through, so we had to leave it at the school and make two trips home.

Please pray for us to either find jobs we can do even though it is raining, or for the rain to let up.