a pencil with a big eraser!

Hola!

Today we learned what it means to use a pencil with a BIG eraser! That has become Ken and Sherri's motto since moving here to Costa Rica two years ago. Today was the first day of the VBS. We were supposed to have 25 kids. We were supposed to start at 9:00. We ended up having 10 kids. We ended up starting at 10:30.

There were transportation problems, which is no surprise. The kids ended up riding a public bus to Orosi and then we had to walk about a mile to go get them. The camp is on one side of the river and Orosi is on the other side of the river. There is a walking bridge that cross the river just up the road from the camp, and there is a vehicle bridge about 3 miles from the camp. The kids could have taken a public bus all the way here, but because of an incidence that a few months ago, the buses can't cross the bridges anymore so the people have to get off the bus and walk across the bridge and get on a bus on the other side of the river.

Anyway, once the kids finally got here, everything went really well! The kids were pretty well behaved and we had no problems. It was really hard not being able to communicate with them, but we have plenty of translators so it's not really a problem - just a nuisance. The only thing that went wrong today was a run-in with a bee's nest. Thankfully, it was two of the team members that got stung and none of the kids. But, with my wonderful nursing training, I fixed them up as good as new. Ok, so not really, but they are both fine. :-)

Well, it didn't rain today and we are done preparing for tomorrow so I think we are going to have a bonfire that we have had to take several rain checks on.

Hopefully we will have more kids tomorrow! And maybe they will be on time...we shall see!

Adios!