Hi my name is Vanessa and I was El Lidre del dia for today. After our preparation day for the CAP project with getting all the materials and getting everything planned and ready, we all woke up to my banging knocks on the doors to our rooms. After a filling breakfast, we took a private bus(with AC that we yearned for…yes!) to Los Pipitos to start our CAP project. The CAP project is a project in which we all work together as a team and help a community, in this case we were building bookcases, tables, painting/renovating a room, and beautifying the outside of Los Pipitos.
Everyone was well energized once we got there and went to work. We later put on some music and had a mini concert of our own where we all sang our hearts out while doing our work. After doing our project for several hours, we had a satisfying lunch and continued with our project(we had some really good snacks in between- yum). We then had to wrap it up for the day and continue tomorrow. We were proud of ourselves noticed that if everybody works together, we can accomplish many things. So far, we had our bookshelf ready, the room painted with a beautiful jungle, and an eye catching painting outside of Los Pipitos.
Everyone was cleaning up and trying to scrub the paint off their hands (it is NOT easy…especially for the oil-based paint). We then rode another private bus back the the hostel and took some quick showers to get rid of the paint smells. We had our last English tutoring prep and had another music concert for the day. Dinner was delicious and we then bonded some more and wrote some letters of appreciation where it brought back many memories of what happened so far during our trip, images flashing in our heads and our hands just writing them down. We can’t wait for tomorrow to come with different challenges and just to finish on what we have worked on today.
I’m happy to read that you are all having a good time and working together as a team. The blog is amazing at keeping everyone informed on your activities and how you are doing. You’re all amazing and incredible teenagers who are very lucky to share this experience together. I’m glad my daughter is with you in this experience. I’d like to know more about how she is coping with everything since she’s injured and I haven’t been able to speak to her.. I miss you Taby….love Mom
Dear Vanessa,
Great job as ELDD! It is good to hear the project is going well! I think ability to work in a group is key to all of your success in college and beyond so you will have this Global Glimpse experience to thank for it!!
I can’t believe you are all almost on your way home!! Time flies!
Love to Caitlin and Maddie!
Love,
Kathleen