Hola everyone today we started our second week of working meaning each group has switched locations. Group 1 (my group) who consists of Victoria Boss, DJ Faivre, Reece Gannon, John Hagan, and Shayla Narodowg finished up at Brillo de Sol last week and are now working at Jardin De Amor in Santa Maria de Jesus. Group 2 consisting of Matilda Laux, Jacob Nutter, Will Tedstone, Jenny Verrilli, and Aidan Weir moved from Santa Maria de Jesus to San Antonio. Group 3 consisting of Zachary Bohnet, Christopher Ely, Ryan Hunt, and Alex Barbour switched from San Antonio to Brillo de Sol where I was working last week.
Up at Jardin De Amor in Santa Maria de Jesus Group 1 continued tiling the floor from last week and have very few tiles left to do. We also started sanding the front gate getting it ready to be painted later this week. Luckily it wasn’t all work out there and we were able to interact with the kids who go to school there. I also got to talk to one of the teachers there who had graduated from the school in 2005 and came back to teach. The Jardin De Amor is a non-profit, privately-funded, and non-affiliated school that hopes to help the poor get out of poverty through education. They also provide classes for pregnant women to teach them how to provide the necessary vitamins and nutrients (which they provide) for the child up to 5 years old. You can find all of their information here as well as a great video about the school. https://www.jardindeamorschool.com/
Group 2 out at San Antonio sanded and stained a bunch of wood all morning for a future project that we’ll hopefully learn more about as the week progresses.
Group 3 who have the pleasure of working at Brillio de Sol this week started spreading gravel around to build a walkway.
Once everyone was back from their worksites and lunch we headed over to our Spanish lessons. Since it’s a new week the seating arrangement in the school switched causing a few of us to sit at the wrong tables though luckily we all ended up where we needed to be very quickly. At school, we also learned that it’s their 25th anniversary this week so we are all getting T-shirts to celebrate.
We had another great day working at the sights and we can’t wait for our experience to continue.
Hasta la mañana,
John Hagan
