Thursday, March 24, 2011

Chilamate Day 4, Full Service Day, Swim & Utopia



***Special thanks to Selden McKee, Photogrpaher Extraordinaire - Her photos of us & our work!*** 


Hola! This is Kailey and Jenna reporting from Chilamate, Costa Rica (day 4). When we woke up this morning, we got ready for the day and went to breakfast. We had eggs with or without onions, pinto, ham, fried potatoes and sweet plantains. After breakfast, we walked to the Chilamate School that is about half a mile away. Once we arrived at the school, we went to work right away. Kailey, Caelin, and I (Jenna) swept the concreted area in order to make it a basketball court. After we made a decent amount of work, Ms. Hytken, Brigid, Caelin, JT, Alexa, Kailey and I went into one of the classrooms with 5th graders and started to have conversations in English and in Spanish with the students. There was a thirteen year old in the fifth grade class room. After we were done having conversations, we left the room and went out to paint tires and paint a hopscotch court on the ground. We made the lines on the basketball court and colored in most of it. Afterwards, we went back to camp for lunch. We ate burritos, rice, beans, salad and fried plantains. After we finished our lunch, we had a little extra time so we played ultimate hide and go seek. We soon headed straight back to the Chilamate School to finish our work. We finished the basketball court, painting the tires; and lastly, we painted trash cans and the water pump house. In the middle of all the work, Ms. Hytken invited Jenna, Brigid, and I (Kailey) into a new classroom. For these school kids only go to school half a day because there are not enough teachers for all the kids so they have a new group of kids before and after lunch. In the classrooms, we had more conversations with the children and then we said our goodbyes. Our work was almost finished at school, and we are going to finish the little pieces of work left over tomorrow. When we got back to our eco-lodge, we changed into our bathing suits and went to the river for a swim with Mr. Wooden and Chris. I (Jenna) didn’t go swimming today so I stayed back at the lodge with Brigid. We played with Lluvia, the owner’s daughter. After swimming, we all went back to take showers and play cards. After cards we went to dinner and had fried chicken, rice, salad, bread, squash soup, and beans. After dinner, we had a challenge. We had to have a pile of cards of world problems and had to put them in order of what we should do first. My group (Jenna) put financial economy first because you need that money to pay for education and cures for diseases. Kailey’s group put getting fresh water and basic sanitation out to people in the world. Then we had anchor and our reading was “life makes sense backwards but live it forward.” This means that if you look backwards in life you can see all your mistakes but you should forget all that and make a change and learn from your mistakes. We had a fun day! Shout out to our dads and moms!!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Jenna,thanks for the shout out.We miss you,but it sounds like you are making a difference there and working hard.Hope you made some friends.
DAD

Unknown said...

Thanks for the great slide show (and musical background!). What a special experience you all are having!!! Regards, Ms. Hytken's dad

Anonymous said...

Hi Kailey - I am so proud of you! What a great experience you are having! I wish I could be there too...Keep having fun. Miss you...
Mom


Kailey- i hope you are having fun! We miss you and so does Bentley. Bentley has found a new spot at the beach he goes on top of the cushion and sleeps there. We are having a lot of fun we wish you where here. We are playing lots of games. We left out tons of rules out of the game life. MISS YOU... Ashley/Bentley