Monday + Tuesday

We finally got to experience what SARFing is all about. Yesterday afternoon we went to Apolonia's house (one of the SARF families) to install a gutter and pipe.

Apolonia and her 3 daughters live on the side of the mountain in a tin structure. Whenever it rains (which is everyday during the rainy season) the water runs down the mountain, through her house, and erodes away the dirt floor. They try to collect the rain water off the roof to use for drinking, bathing, and cooking. We installed a gutter and down pipe to make it a lot easier to collect the water into plastic barrels for future use.



This morning, we went to a local school to start working on a computer lab for the kids.

Today was all painting, and tomorrow we are going to run the wires along the wall for the computers. The staff at the school is very excited to finally have a computer lab. We were told that kids who are educated have about a 40% chance of finding a reliable job, but if their education involves using a computer, that percentage jumps to over 90% !! Plus, all of these computers were donated, God is good ! We had a blast interacting with the kids and it is always fun to see how kids will be kids, no matter what country you are in.

A few other things-

We have been blessed to have a local Guatemalan, Diana, cooking wonderful meals for us each day. 

Everyday it rains for maybe 1-3 hours in the afternoon or evening.

The circus is in town, and literally right across the street from where we are staying. So everyday we get to hear obnoxious circus music, Michael Jackson, and "Barbie Girl".

Thank you all for your thought and prayers,

D+P+C