By Yessenia Argudo
Today was our second day of work at Joyas de las
Flores. We are trying to make a pavilion
aka “galera” for the school. The
children of the school will then be able to have assemblies without having to
stand in the scorching sun.
Yesterday when we arrived, hundreds of children had to stand
in the heat while the ceremony to greet was taking place. With the gallera created, the kids of las
Joyas de las Flores will soon be able to enjoy greeting Quinnipiac students
even more than before.
A view of the pavilion. |
We worked all day today from 8am to 5pm. Even though we made lots of progress, I was
able to appreciate how much easier construction projects are in America. The digging took us many hours and it was a
combination of 2 days of work. If we
were in America, it would take us probably 2 hours because we would have power
tools to help. However, here in
Guatemala, it takes them more time to enjoy the benefits of their work. As crazy as this sounds though, I think they
will appreciate it more because it is a collective effort from their community.
Finally, I had lots of fun with the family from this
home stay. We spent all night singing to
each other. They would sing in Spanish
for us and we would sing in English for them.
It didn’t matter what language we spoke, music was a universal language
for us.
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