Wardlaw-Hartridge School: Guatemala 2015

Hi everyone,

Today was day 8 of our adventure. We started off today by having a delicious breakfast consisting of sandwiches and plantains(a personal favorite).We played some awesome games with the local kids. We also worked at the school(such a shock, we know). We finished painting the stairs, with some amazing lettering done by Jordan and Kelly. We also made a walkway in the back of the school, which is coming along really well. We worked for probably 10 hours straight, in the sweltering heat, in full work clothes!!! Just kidding =) We had a short break, with some delish cookies and watermelon. We continued working and managed to finish all of the painting! We also finished a lot of the walkway. Since the painting was finished early, we played some games which were really fun. We then went back to the houses for lunch, where we had some delicious tortillas, chicken, and rice. After lunch we played some soccer and basketball with the high schoolers and had a blast beating them=) We headed to the school to do some leadership activities, including disarming a bomb! Granted it was fake, but we think it still counts. As we were finishing our sixth round of bomb disarming, it started pouring rain. We stayed outside and got soaked. We went inside the classroom and described what we thought of each other as leaders. It was a great moment of team bonding. Now we are going back for a delicious dinner. Tomorrow it is off to Tikal!

Signing off,
Sarah and Simu

P.S. Quick shoutout to Mama, Papa, and Zach Hoffman, I really miss you guys!