Wednesday, Jan 21 – Completing what was unfinished

7:43 pm

After waking up twelve hours ago, sleeping in for Guatemalan standards, to what I thought was an earthquake (Bennett was actually shaking the bed to wake me up since I had headphones in), I rushed a shower and headed to the woodshop.  We all put the final coat on 24 benches in about an hour or two and enjoyed the rest of the day off.  The benches look great and we took a group shot with them for the Casa website (casaontherock.com).  We told Jack Ciak that we were done and instead of giving us more to do he just said, "Enjoy the kids."  So we did.  We all played pretty hard and got worn out.  A couple of us started to read some of the books we needed to have read before we get back from interim.  I was able to start and finish a great book, Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village, within five hours including a lunch break.  It was good to have that weight lifted off of me as well.  There is one little boy here, Yogi, who can't be more than four or five and he is always full of smiles.  Since he can't speak any English and you could say the same thing about my Spanish we just talk with arm motions and smiles.  I love still being able to communicate with the children even though I'm not nearly as proficient in their language as the other six here with me.