Day 6: January 10, 2019

Day six was a busy day. All three schools completed the Christian Craft you see above. Learning a great moral and crafting at the same time opened the imagination of the students. San Lucas had the most members it had all week. Some construction workers came and finished an uncompleted paint job on a recently

Day 5: January 9, 2019

Day five had us all over the place with five different groups in five different places. Corazon has the biggest portion of the crew with teaching and progression with the playground. It’s almost done! After lunch at Corazon Creek, the village got a couple groups of surprise visitors. A Belgian couple was going to be

Day 4: January 8, 2019

Day four was all kinds of exciting for the group. Corazon Creek continued building the new playground, and by the end of the day the kids were finally able to start using their new slides safely. The playground will hopefully be completed tomorrow on the 9th(5th Day). It will be fully decked out with swings

Day 3: January 7, 2019

Day three is the first full day of working for our crew. Most of us went to Corazon Creek to construct a playground for the students and to teach infant 1&2 and standards 1-6. These standards are like their version of 1st through 8th grade. Other teachers went to San Lucas and Blue Creek Villages.

Day 2: January 6, 2019

After a long day on long backroads, the group unwinds by goofing off while planning lessons for the coming week. The twenty seven of us were treated to mass followed by Caldo in the village of Otoxha(pronounced otoshaw). The mass was about 50/50 between being spoken in English and the native language, Kekchi Mayan. After,

Day 1: January 5, 2019

Day one at the airport went off without a hitch. An enormous line of bags preceded wherever we went. The travel was tiring but the nice short bus ride really helped, only five hours over a bumpy road. All fatigue aside, the journey and the destination was filled with welcoming and smiling faces. We got

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