Monday, January 11, 2010

First day at work

The day started off with watching the children raise the mexician flag. They sang 3 songs, and marched around the court yard of the school with their national flag.

Today the men got to use there given talents to help out the orphanage. Some men were fixing some electrical issues, including a wire that got cut by the tractor. Others were fixing toilets, hot water tanks, etc. Some worked on computers, and others helped with concrete/brick work. This area gets very dusty in summer and grass does not grow well. A large portion of the yard is already brick but there is still lots to do. There was a 15" think cement pad created so that the water tuck can empty easier, and new sewer lines were run.

During the kids recess breaks we got to fool around with them a bit but not like we did on sunday. There schooling is done around 2 so we didn't have a lot of time with the kids today but hopefully tonight, or tomorrow we can continue to have fun with them.

Tonight we are going to a small town to check out some more churches, as well as maybe get some shopping in.

We have had 4 ladies here doing all of our cooking/cleaning. What a blessing they have been. I know that if these 20 men didn't have these ladies we all would be eating much much worse, or eating out way more often.