Hello. I have a couple photos slash video of sunday on our way to church and at church.

On the top is the church we go to - La Fraternidad Christiana...it seats 12,200 and typically has about 5 to 6,000 people for a Sunday service.

The photo in the middle -Jon, he´s at the University studying tourism stuff. .
To the right is David (10?) in the yellow and Emily (10?) just in front of the

camera, and Astrid (19) on the right.

Below is a video of a church member singing a song originally done by Josh Groban and Charlotte church. He´s singing entirely in Spanish, but I think the original was done partially in Spanish or Italian, and partially in English. It´s opera ish, and this guy belted it...it was pretty amazing to hear it in person. The video is about 3 mins long.

Left is one of the teams before the first games.

This is one of the teams lined up before the first games began on Wednesday.

Sorry, I really didn´t take a whole lot of photos of games b-c I was busy doing lots of other stuff.

Here is Edgar, getting his clothes stuffed with balloons...the team with the most balloons stuffed in the individual´s clothing was the winner. Well, that´s all folks, see ya.

To the left is the after shot of that house I helped with a month or so ago and down to the left is the before shot. I accidentally added this volcanoe shot below and cannot seem to delete it. I´m going to post more photos on a photo only post in a couple minutes.

Hola. So, it´s been a while since I wrote ya´ll so I´m not sure where to begin...Bueno, last week was ´Semana Santa´ or ´Holy Week,´ which is a big deal here (even though the actual resurrection isn´t too big...wierd), so the kids had the week off. SO, the week was spent hanging out, playing games, having water fights etc. We went to a water park last Tuesday, where, although I had on SPF 50 and applied it multiple times, I got completely thrashed by the sun. So, I´m still peeling from that. It was worth it though, that was a wicked good time. Wed thru Fri we had game days, with the kids split up into 4 teams and each with their own color, name, cheer, flag, etc. Wednesday was rally day, which means something that I still haven´t quite figured out, but there was a timed obstacle course, 3 legged soccer, and others. The next day was food day, so all the games were food related. So, we had a cake decorating relay where one kid would run to the table where there was a cake, frosting and sprinkles and other toppings, and they had to decorate with a clown theme. Each kid had 20 seconds and then they´d run back and tag a teammate. THere were others too. Friday was water day, so all the games, had water or water baloons involved. One game was water balloon volley ball where each team had a bed sheet to serve and catch the balloons (like the fire departments used to save people from burning buildings in old movies), and there were sheets over the net so they couldn´t see where the other team would volley the balloon. THat was fun.

I´m finally over my sickness now, I just got done with my Cipro. I´m getting back into the routine of clinic time in the mornings and tutor time for a couple or 3 hrs after lunch. We got a new intern a week ago sunday, she´s at school now in Antigua for 2 weeks. Another couple people associated with NLCH came here for Holy week and have now gone back to where they live elsewhere in Guate. So now it´s just me, which is kinda nice. I can read every day now, and study spanish every day...I like it. It was nice having the team and then those other three people around though. We didn´t go to church on Sunday, b-c even the evangelical churches here don´t have a special easter service...they did their special service on Palm Sunday. So, we had a short little service here at the home, with the director preaching, and then we ate breakfast together in the lunch room while watching Prince Caspian (in spanish of course). Sunday night I went with Lee and Staci (my supervisor people) to Antigua to take Lindsey the new intern to school. We brought four of the ´kids´ of the home (they´re all my age or older), since they helped with the game week, the Jarvis´ thought it´d be fun for them if they went to Antigua. That was fun. Yesterday and today have been pretty standard...clinic, study, read, lunch, tutor, hang out, dinner, hang out, read, sleep. I went running today, which was fun. Even though I´ve been here for seven weeks now, the 4300ft altitude still gets me a little bit when I run...I don´t feel much more tired, but I notice the difference in my times.

Flowing Like a River

Hello all, I'm sick again...Yay!  So this week has been great actually, but I have apparently not kicked the bug I had before.  I did my usual clinic stuff, nothing really interesting this week, and tutoring, normal too.  I went to Antigua with the team that was here from Orlando, that was fun.  They just left today, so now i'll have lots of alone time...maybe too much.  Staci told me that after teams leave they have their two 'sad days' and then things are back to normal.  Generally things are on a high, as they were this week with this team, so after they leave things slow down and are a bit sad I guess.  It'll be good and bad I guess...I will get more reading time and such, but it was really a great time meeting all the people of that group and just sharing my experiences with them as well as hearing some of their stories.  And it's fun to see how nuts a lot of the kids go for these people.  I had an exciting night last night...no puke though, I'm sorry!  I did have diarrhea 8 times though, so that was fun, and as the title of this entry suggests, I was flowing like a river (I'll remind you that it's called butt pee).  So I started on Ciprofloxacin again today...hopefully this ten days' worth will actually kick the bug from my body, we'll see.  Anyway that's all for now, see ya!