Thursday, April 21st

       Sorry for the repetitiveness in my blogs so I'll keep it short and sweet today. Basically this morning went the same as always. After we got back from walking the kids to the bus, we went to the office and gave Ms. Gurla our paperwork and did our video interview for the A Broader View coordinator to put on the website for future volunteers to see. They asked us questions about the accommodation, tips about what other volunteers should bring, what our biggest challenge was, what was most surprising, etc. Just in case you were wondering... one of the challenges is getting used to everything like not having air conditioning with the 90 degree weather. The most surprising thing was how welcoming everyone is and how close I felt with the kids just after a short amount of time. However, the biggest challenge in general is going to be leaving the kids as you probably can figure out after my previous blog posts. I have had multiple nights where I cry myself to sleep thinking about leaving. In fact, I have already begged my parents to adopt one of the little girls here who doesn't have any siblings here. I am definitely going to bring my family back for Christmas and maybe they will fall in love with her too!
       After we did the video interviews, Moses was back from taking the three boys to school in Belize City so I helped him in the transitional home. In the same room that we painted, we started setting up the bathroom. First, we cut a hole into the wall for the pipe to go outside. Then once it was cut (from the inside and the outside), we got all the pieces for the toilet and started to put it all together. Then, we glued the piping to the end of the toilet and moved it into the bathroom. After we did this it was time to head to get the kids for lunch. On the way, we stopped at one of the middle schools and the high school to drop off lunch for the kids. Once we returned we ate lunch and I went back to help Moses finish installing the toilet with all of the piping. Before everyone else got home from school, Delroy (the 17 year old boy) and played "PIGS"on the basketball court. When the younger kids arrived, I helped them with their homework. As always I help Kyron and Asher with theirs first. Since they do not have school tomorrow, I helped them with their 25 weekly spelling words. This is very difficult because they are very behind in school; however, since yesterday they have improved a lot. After homework we listened to music, played basketball, played soccer, and talked until dinner time. After dinner I met Wafi at the local park to do his aerobics class. After aerobics, a girl offered to drive me back to the street that Liberty is on because it was dark outside and dangerous to walk alone. She was super nice and she even technically works in the US but lives in Belize so she does everything online from her house. Once she dropped me off I showered, ate dinner, logged, and blogged. I am so sad to think that tomorrow is one of our last full days with the kids. I am going to miss the people so much, but I know I am going to come back to visit.