Hola everyone, 

We are in Zacapa, Guatemala and I love it here! Today though, we were doing a whole base clean up. I was put on the weeding team in the blistering sun. Our last job was to weed a cement drive way that was completely covered in weeds. There were eight of us working on it but it took forever and it was soooooo hot we were dying, but we did have a umbrella hat that we took turns using.  Once we finished we all went to our patio and ate mango popsicles that we had frozen in cups the night earlier. They were really delicious! While we are here we are staying in House 1, which is a giant house, it also has a giant porch that we have furnished with cushioned chairs, couches and tables. We decided that if we are living here for two months we might as well make it home.    

                                   

                                      Hugo had to work very hard too pull around three people

Mimi, Alician, and Miriam

Little Lizzy eating her 'bannano'

Eating popsicles on our porch 

Our porch fully furnished

                                                            Our house,  House 1

I finally let my hair down 

Zacapa, Guatemala

This is for Vicki,
This blog is about Zacapa so I can convince you to send Taylor. Zacapa is a capital city is the state of zacapa. We stay at a orphanage called House of Hope or Casa de Esperanza. It is super safe there and there are a bunch of kids. Every afternoon we play a gaint soccer game and then eat dinner all together. When teams come to stay at the base we become the cooks. Last year we made food for 175 people every meal, it was really fun though.

                                                

cooking in giant pots to heavy to even lift

Lilia, Flor, Reyna and Ruth

A doge ball game on the top basketball bout

MaryElena and her baby Elizabeth 

Dinner at the girls table 

Caroline on top, Vidalia on the left, Marije in the middle, baby Elizabeth and her mom MaryElena, the Vidalia's son Hugo

Looking out from house three's porch, there are seven houses and are called by number

Daddy, Peter Bell ( our freind and house parent) and Tony building cabinets

Playing soccer

These are not all the kids but were the only kids that stayed for the pictures

Darwin on the left and Eliot on the right, the kid behind Darwin on the left, I can't tell who he is because he looks identical to his brother

We decided to eat chile on the patio these night

Mimi and Belen