Day 7

Another productive day at the jobsite with almost 1200 blocks laid. Were thankful that the wind wasn’t blowing as much as the previous day, although plenty of sand monsters showed up for lunch. We lost a few people to back spasms and general malaise but overall everyone is holding up well! The day was unique in that we ate dinner at the colonia and spent the evening interacting with people. The men and boys got together for a rousing game of somewhat chaotic hockey, and the karaoke was a blast! There was a little boy, who just loved the microphone, and he decided to give us a little concert, it was really cute. The boys in our group started a little rap session and they were really good at it!!!!!!


The girls had fun to putting their dreams on colored paper and decorating it, the little girls loved the cameras and were thrilled to be in the pictures showing off there artwork. The women that came enjoyed watching their children and some of us were able to communicate one on one. We were so blessed to have Erin from Seattle in the group as
she is doing an awesome job with the Spanish she has learned. Then after all that excitement we had a fun game of tug-a-war first was the Mexican girls against the Canadian girls, well unfortunately the Canadian girls lost, booohooo. Next we had the Mexican boys against the Canadian boys…it was over quickly we lost again waaaaa!! Then the greatest war of all- Mexicans against the Canadians…we suck- they won, someone called best out of three, oh the pain—they won again. we all went home happy to lose against them…knowing we’d made some connections and shared some fun together.