Today, we woke up really early to prepare ourselves to be awesome leaders of the day. After we woke everyone up in time to get ready for the awesome breakfast of pancakes, we led the group in an energizer which pumped everyone up for the ride to Centro Tambor. Centro Tambor is the community in which we are carrying out our Community Action Project (CAP), helping the organization Infancia sin fronteras.
Since the community is super hilly we had to carry all of our supplies up SUPER steep hills. Using our great leadership skills we motivated the group to stay positive throughout our project. As the project began, we experienced how it felt to build as a team to renovate a building. There were several projects that everyone was assigned to which was painting a mural, building a wall, installing a ceiling, and installing a door. The intentions of each the assignments is to help brighten the center and make it safer for children in the neighborhood. We worked from 10a.m. to 4p.m. and in that time, the weather went from cloudy to rainy to sunny.
In between that time we took a break and reflected on our work as we ate a sandwich. The experience was very rewarding because it was helping a community create a safer educational center for the kids around the area. And the work we did made the area look more lively. After the project, we took a school bus back to our hostel and we all felt very tired from our hard work, so we ravenously devoured our delicious dinner of tacos. At our nightly meeting, we shared our thoughts and feelings about our experiences today. Big love to our leaders, Silvan and Roxy for picking up our supplies to start our project. Big love to Hiu and Ambar for staying positive, always encouraging us, and helping us. Our experience as leaders was very fun and being in charge of our awesome group. It was our very first experience being in charge of construction work and we are now experts (almost).
We miss and love those who are reading our blog posts and we can’t wait to see you NEXT FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
KJ and Chasity
P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MELISSA TORMA. From your loving sis KJ.
Wow Marilyn, some painting, then some tacos later? Sounds like one of my days! Love the photos. It’s so cool to be involved in a project like that. Boy I thought it was far if I have to go to Aurora to paint, ya got me beat kid!
Love u love u love you!!
Papi
Marilyn,
So good to see your big smile! Nice job on the painting Dad will b so proud! Love you and see you soon
Another inspiring blog! I am so proud of you Maddie. I feel like you are going to come home a completely different person because of this trip.
I’m getting super excited for Italy! Having lunch with Lizzie’s parents tomorrow to talk about the trip.
Make the most of these last days!
Love you
Mom
Wow, what an experience all of you are having. Sounds like you’re learning construction skills as well!! Jenna, we can’t wait to see you on Friday. We love you!!
Romi – I am so glad you went on this trip. Such a great experience and a lot of life lessons.
I hope you are doing well. See you real soon. I foresee a lot of Israeli breakfasts in your future.
Love you much, Ema
Hi Romi,
I hope you are having a great time. Enjoy your last week abroad!
Can’t wait to see you on Friday!
Love you!!!
Hi Romi,
I hope you are a having an amazing experience in Nicaragua!
But, enough is enough. Come back home!!!
I cannot wait for Friday night!
I love you!!
Hi Marilyn,
So good to see you having fun & working towards making life better for others.
You rock, can’t wait to hear all about this wonderful adventure.
Love ya,
Deborah King