More teaching, more birthdays, and importantly, more cake! Another week that has flown past! More teaching, more birthdays, and importantly, more cake. Firstly, we took last Saturday to be complete tourists and go visit Antigua, which is a short distance from where are staying (not Antigua in the Caribbean)! We took the classic tourist photo … Continued
Teaching, Tiredness and Birthdays! We have now been here just over 2 weeks, which has flown by. Somehow, in two weeks, we have become fully qualified teachers teaching in a primary school 6 days a week. To say we are a bit tired is the biggest understatement ever but we are loving being so involved. … Continued
Goodbye San Juan, Hello Alotenango! As a team we have had the last week off to rest, catch some rays and get sunburnt! However before we got to enjoy all that lovely aloe vera we had to say goodbye to San Juan. I don’t think any of us were ready to say goodbye to such … Continued
Mosh, Painting and Tortilla Making! This week we have worked out who is a natural, accurate, painter and who should really be kept away from the paint brushes. We were given the opportunity to paint the Sunday school room; and to create a mural for the wall. We think we have done a good job … Continued
Samana Santa, Smores and Kids Club! As it is Samana Santa (Holy Week) here it has all been quite busy this last week. We have been bombarded with kids work, enjoyed some smores and completed construction work. So obviously, most importantly, smores; the youth group here decided to have a fire pit where we played … Continued
Our First Month! Flapjacks, Rain and Candle Lit Communion So we have somehow hit our first month here. Building work is coming along nicely and although it’s safe to say the church is nowhere near finished we would like to think we are making some kind of dent in the quite big construction project. We … Continued
Pan Flutes, Parables and Swimming in the Lake! Our week has been very heavily consumed with helping to put on an event for healthy based, Godly, marriages. We have made a lot of decorations, like a serious amount of decorations, from photo frames to 3D stars and had a great turnout of 40 couples. It … Continued
Sunburn, Sifting Sand and Making up Spanish Words! Week 2 in Guatemala has consisted of a lot of sunburn, sifting sand, and making up Spanish words. Our project started this week with going into the first schools here to perform the story of Noah to 10 classes (and we think they might have even understood … Continued
Cold Showers, Loud Worship and Gratitude! After extremely little sleep and a near miss of our flight from Mexico, we are pleased to say all 8 of us have arrived in Guatemala (with 8 passports). Ever since unpacking on Tuesday we have been submerged in Guatemalan culture, and enjoying cold showers – in the words … Continued