Día Nueve: Work Day!!

¡Hola familias! 

    Today was quite the busy workday! For the first half of the morning, we joined the entire high school at a local corn field to help them collect this year's corn harvest. All the students absolutely dominated us in harvesting corn, as they flew through 5 piles while we struggled with one (oops). To be fair, they've had years of experience. 

    We had a bit more time before lunch after the harvest, so we went back to the high school to work on the mural and greenhouse. One group started drawing outlines on the mural, while the other groups dug trenches and cleaned the area around the greenhouse. 

    As usual, lunch was quite eventful. We discovered unique forms of holding our forks, and some of us were a bit sleepy from the morning. We had our usual soup along with pesto spaghetti with chicken (this was the time of fork technique discovery btw). Many of us got seconds because the food was so good! The guys on the trip created this variation of soccer and Four Square, so they had fun playing that while we were getting ready to head back to school.

    After lunch, we went back to the school to continue our work. Most of us went to play sports with the students, and we had a very exciting volleyball match together. Then we got back to work on the mural, and almost all of us started adding paint to our sections and it's all looking very good! Starting to paint came along with the challenge of staying clean; a challenge that many of us failed as we all got various colors of paint on our hands... some more than others (oops again). A couple people were working on the greenhouse, clearing more of the area around it.

    Back at Doña Gladys', we debriefed our plans for our retreat tomorrow, and Chris emphasized the importance of spending quality time with our families today (especially because we only have 5 days left with them :((( ). This trip truly has flown by and it feels like it's only going to go by faster. We think it's safe to say that we all miss home a bit, but we're also going to miss this group and this trip so so much when it's over. We're savoring every moment together and we can't wait to share the rest with you!

Love,

Murohn and Ellie <3


Time for pictures!!!

Nilesh leading our morning stretch circle.

Photos of the corn from the corn harvest (look at how much we collected!)

Greenhouse progress! (plus Murohn & Puppy Sammy)

Mural progress!

Murohn's Corn Harvesting Tutorial




Mural Yap


  





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