Hello everyone! Tatiana here as your leader of the day!
Today we all woke up at 7 A.M. to prepare for an eventful day full of teamwork. When everyone was ready we took our usual morning walk to Imabite for an amazing breakfast of Gallo Pinto with Repochetas. After, we came back to our hostel and got energized with a game of Agree or Disagree for our program seminar that was led by Molly to get us started on our letters of appreciation to our supporters.
In order to gather the necessary materials for our Community Action Project, the delegation split into two groups. One group went shopping for painting materials such as black tarp and brushes while the other shopped for construction materials such as tiles, a toilet, and a shower head. The group of people who went shopping for painting materials were done before those who bought construction materials so therefore we had our usual buffet lunch in two separate groups which felt very weird because we’ve gotten used to spending almost every minute together.
Once we all gathered back together as one to the hostel we got together with our other English teachers to prepare for another night full of tutoring. Then we packed all of our supplies on the bus and headed to Barriletes where our Community Action Project is taking place. As soon as we arrived to Barriletes we immediately unpacked and got straight to work. Some of us were helping to bring alive a bathroom we are planning on making, while others were helping repaint walls and murals, and others of us were helping to keep all the kids entertained by helping them with their work.
After spending about 3 hours working on our first day of our Community Action Project we headed back to the hostel where we gathered all of our English tutoring materials and went to Imabite to enjoy yet another wonderful meal of dinner. When everyone was done with their white rice, chicken, and salad we took a walk to English tutoring where the halls were full of very loud talking and laughter.
When we got back to the hostel we had our usual nightly meeting where I passed the torch to our next leader of the day (Sydney!) after everyone was literally crying of laughter at her talent of being able to communicate with aliens through an aluminum foil cap. The meeting was ended by our unity clap led by Sydney with the word “escalera” which means “ladder” in Spanish. We ended our night with laughter and snacks which has also become a usual ritual. Thank you for reading todays of Leon 2’s daily blogs! We all send love to our family and friends!
We seriously LOVE these blogs! You all have done such a wonderful job of describing your day and portraying the obvious sense of unity that you all must be feeling.
Sounds like quite the undertaking to create a new bathroom! No doubt you guys will accomplish all that you’ve set out to do!
we can’t wait for tomorrow’s update.
Tim, we send our love and can’t wait to see you! Continue to take in all these experiences and enjoy every moment. These are things that will stay with you forever. xoxo
Hey baby girl! Today was more of the usual here. Definitely not as eventful as it sounds your day was 🙂 I had a newbie shoot this morning then went and picked up your guys registration packets at the school. Can’t believe summer is going by so quickly! I spent the night working and am finally climbing into bed for my new nightly ritual of reading the GG blog and looking for pictures of my baby girl. I miss you every day and can’t wait to hear all about your trip. Love you bunches!
Mom
Tatiana,
I am so proud of you. You are amazing in so many ways. Just look at that smile. I cannot even put into words exactly what I want to say. Keep up the great work mija. Love you lots
Shelly
It’s Tuesday Orion and you know is family dinner night of the week , we’ll do cut cake for me and Wei ‘s bday , but we gonna miss you around , you better take mommy out dinner to make it up to me when you come back OK ! ? I’m sure Jackie and Olivia will have lots questions for me about you , so great to see all those happy little smile on the pictures here, so proud of all of you making things happen , I’m always greatful how you be able to do all this things that I can’t do when I were your age , oh and by the way I’m going to have lunch with your other grandma today (dad side) and you know is gonna be interesting lol… I hope everything’s is good , I’ll tell her all of your summer fun and plans .
Love you ! Miss you !
Mom ????????????????
Hi Liv,
I hope you are enjoying seeing how different the culture and world can be so far from home. I’m sure you are enjoying the experience. Stay safe!!
Love, Grandpa and Grandma
Hi Salina, hope you are feeling very well by now. I’m aware that you lost your good camera at the airport.
Hello everyone, Salina’s mom wants to see Salina’s picture how she is doing.
Love you! Miss You!
Mom
We are so proud of this group, you have such a good sense of responsibility, unity and love of sharing and helping others. Tim, you fit right in. Also, we can hear your laughter with all the stories of the day. Sending our love! Anxious to see pictures and hear you tell us all about it. Hugs!
Sydney, my love… Did you get any response from the aliens? Glad to see you haven’t lost your touch.
Your group project to create a bathroom sounds really ambitious. You definitely know how essential a functioning bathroom is. I’m sure it is extremely satisfying to you & the group to know you’re contributing to your host village & receiving so much from them in return.
I miss you, & as always, love you tons. Grandpa sends his love, too.
Grandma
Hi Ayesha i miss you so much!! i know you’re having a lot of fun and using the spanish skills from Ballado’s class! can’t wait to hear from you again 🙂
Hi Dania,
We are reading a lot about what are are doing and glad you are enjoying yourself.
Mom and Dad are missing you,
Love you
you all are doing such an amazing job .. Learning everyday new things .. We miss you a lot .. Today is uncles birthday .. He was missing you . We all will celebrate his birthday once you are back . They had good trip . I am so bored without coz there no one to annoy :)) me just kidding . We are really missing you and can’t wait to see you this Sunday . Love you baby .
Tati , good job my beauty ❤️
Love you , mom