Today is our second full day of being here and we are all loving it! It is hot and humid, but we're all working and playing so much that we hardly even notice it. In the morning we were able to watch the kids do their morning formation. It was similar to how we say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning: they line up in the courtyard by grade and sing their national anthem. It was surprisingly long, probably over four minutes! We taught more English lessons today and the kids really seemed to like it. My group (Sarah, Megan, and I) taught a lesson on family members. One kid, Deonle or something like that, raised his hand right away to tell us he had finished the paper we handed out just a few seconds before. Even after we left the room the teacher was practicing the words with them that we had left written on the chalkboard! We then got to work preparing bags with dental supplies, and later went across the street to the preschool and set up for a big party tomorrow! That pretty much covers the first part of our day. I had so much fun today, and I can't wait for what we'll be doing for the rest of our time here!
Keep those prayers coming!
Julie Macmann
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| Here is the morning formation with all the students ready to start the day. They sang National Anthem and other songs and listened to school announcements. |
Megan, Sarah and Julie teaching the 4th graders family memebers. This was their first introduction to English but next year will begin it in the 5th grade.
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| The kids like to take our cameras and take silly pictures. Mackenzie is being super silly here! |
These girls helped us decorate for tomorrow's party.
Hi families!
This afternoon we all returned to the construction site of the new Creole church to work some more. The weather was a little cooler than this morning due to the cloud cover and wonderful breeze. The nice weather was much apprecitated during our work, as I'm sure you all can imagine. At the work site we hauled sand from the ground floor to the roof, using our pulley system like yesterday. Work was going smoothly until the concrete blocks arrived, 400 blocks to be exact. Working as the team we are, everyone joined in on making an assembly line to move the blocks up the three stories of the unfinished church. If you are wondering if the labor intensive work ever got boring, the answer for me at least is no; and we had a support team of Dominicans watching us from the street the whole time! After about 4 hours, we all went back to the school for showers and dinner. Today was just as amazing as the yesterday, and tomorrow will be great too. Thank you for all the prayers and love!
Lauren Marshall |
| Eli on the pile of concrete blocks, about to start handing them down. |
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| We made too many piles on the roof so we had to go back and condense them! |
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| Julie, Megan , and Lauren at the top of the pulley. |
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| Alexis gathered the empty buckets that we threw down from the roof... in her own way! |
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| Sara and Mitch made the best pulling team by far! |
