What’s up from one of the last couple LDD leaders in Estelí 2, Liz and Sidney!
Today, we are proud to say that we successfully completed day two of our CAP project. It was a stressful, hard, and tiring day, but we did it! Our day started at 6am. We woke up, got ready for a long hard working day, and by 7am, we were once again in Buffet Estelí eating our delicious breakfast. After breakfast, we all boarded the bus and headed out to La Montañita to start working on our CAP project. From about 8:30am to 3pm, we were all split into three teams: classroom, garden and playground. The classroom team worked on building and painting bookshelves for the classrooms and cleaning the classroom blinds. The playground team completely cleaned up the whole school yard and created more space for the kids to play.
The garden team pulled out a bunch of cactuses (ouch!), made beds for plants, built a new entrance, planted seeds, and painted garden signs! We all worked really hard and efficiently. At 12pm, we had lunch which was Spanish rice and bread. After lunch, we played some games with the kids that were there, worked some more on our projects, and then left the school around 3. After coming back from La Montañita, we all took nice cold showers (the usual), and some of us even took a short nap before dinner. At 5pm, we all walked down to dinner and enjoyed a delicious meal of rice, chicken, vegetables, beans and fried plantains. Our tutoring session followed as usual. Even though there were not a lot of people at tutoring, we still managed to have fun and teach the students some ingles. When tutoring was over, we returned back to Hostel Tomabu to start our nightly meeting. We reflected upon our hard but impactful day and then we passed on the torch to the next LDD leaders, Sammy and Cindy, who performed their made up dance to us. We are all tired and super excited for the next coming days! Time is ticking, and we will see all of you soon, in fact this SATURDAY/SUNDAY (that’s crazy).
Much love from Liz and Sidney! Adios!
P.S. You may wonder why the times are always noted in each blog. We have such a tight schedule every day that we need to be exact so that we are always on time for our bus, speaker, meal, etc. Shout out to Tania and Erik for working so hard on our itineraries and to all of our GG leaders for keeping on track and on task.
Hey Liz and Sidney! Love the photos and description of your day. Sounds like y’all are making great progress on your ambitious CAPs. It’s fantastic how much your dedicated dream team is accomplishing; keep up the good work!
—Jenne, Tyler’s ‘rent
[Hi Tyler! I’m on a mini vacay to…Santa Rosa. I’m planning on visiting the Charles Schultz Museum today; he was the dude who drew the “Peanuts” comic strip. Yesterday the dogs got out, but luckily our neighbor Lani corralled them back. She did us a real solid. I’m looking forward having you home soon, but I don’t want your fantastic trip to end. And I bet you’re going to sleep for a week! Love you, love you, love you!!!]
See you guys in the SFO this Saturday/Sunday!
I wonder when Daisy will be the LDD leader?! LOL 🙂
Ellen (Daisy’s mom)
You all are amazing! I hope that someone took before and after picture of the wonderful projects you are doing! Thank you all for the updates. It brings all of your friends and family back home a little closer to you.
Cammie- Dodger has taken over your bed…there will be a territory fight when you get home.
OX MOM
Sounds like a day of hard work, but very satisfying too. Good job everyone! Really looking forward to seeing pictures of the end result.
Hey Paul! Hope you’re having a great time. Enjoy the time you have left and I can’t wait to hear about all your adventures! Have a safe flight back que Dios te bendiga and see you soon 🙂 ❤️
Hey Glimpsers! I am really going to miss the daily blogs describing all your amazing days! I am really looking forward to seeing Brendan, it feels like forever since he left, but I am betting it feels like yesterday to you all…..
You are all going to just miss the debilitating heat wave we have been experiencing for the last 5 days. Phoenix got up to 117 degrees yesterday, grounding lots of airline flights due to the extreme heat. I guess frying an egg on the sidewalk in Las Vegas is doable! Today is supposed to be the hottest of the week, with temps starting to get back to normal this weekend.
Enjoy your last couple of days, have lots of fun and don’t forget to share contact information! Maybe we can set up a reunion party in August in Woodside!
Maricela, te miras tan preciosa ayudando. Y esa sonrisa tan bonita llena de joy. Im so happy you went on this trip. I love you Baby.
Daisy, sorry I missed your call just now but I got your voice message. Yes, we are going to pick you up from the SFO airport at 12am on June 25th.
See you soon!
Ellen ( Daisy’s mom)