Third Service Day

Hola, The past 24 hours have been great! Yesterday we had a delicious lunch at Chilamate, with a few friends from the community. After eating we walked to meet Jaime the ethno-botanist, who taught us about many plants. We ate a lot of them, but mainly spit them out. We walked back to learn about our leadership styles. In one of the activities, we picked three cards describing our personalities and that determined our style of leading. Soon we were split into groups to participate in the marshmallow challenge, which pushed us to work together. We headed back to our homestays for the night, awaiting the next day. Today, we started our second round of painting the Kindergarten classroom and began to build sandboxes around the playground. So far everyone is enjoying the trip and all is well. We miss you guys! xo Mitchell and Ella

p.s. from Allie and Sue: Our internet connection at the school in the village and via one of our instructor's phones continues to be a challenge. Today it proved impossible to upload photos to the blog because of the slow connection, but we assure you that everyone is well and happy. The engagement and authenticity of our students is impressive and inspiring, and they will have amazing stories to share with you when we return. Tomorrow we'll be based in the village again, so we may have the same issues in terms of photographs (but we'll definitely post more student words). On Friday and Saturday we will have access to speedy WiFi at Chilamate and at our Saturday night hotel, so hopefully we'll be able to post lots of photos for your enjoyment :) More soon!