Week one: Done!

Hey everyone!

We just completed week one and are having our daily 3:00 coffee break. I thought I would take a few minutes to do a quick update.

The kids continued to come each day around 10:15. We never really knew when they would come, or how many there would be. Yesterday, we only had about 21. Today, we had like 30 some! Some come in pick-up trucks, others take the bus to Orosi and we have to walk to go get them. Because we do not know when they are going to show up or when we are going to start, the schedule that we worked so hard at making kinda went out the window (we wrote that in pen...no erasing! lol!). We did try to follow the time frames even though everything was pushed back about an hour. I was actually glad they did come an hour late each day because we still got everything that we had planned done and I do not know what we would have done if we had another hour!

Yesterday, it rained almost all day. Actually, it was more like a torrential downpour. There was standing water and huge puddles everywhere. Even though it was raining, we still all went swimming since it was not lightning. That was an experience! The crafts went really well and we did not have left over time or anything. However, after the pool time, we had about an hour to kill, and man was it a killer! Because it was raining, we had to keep the kids inside. I guess I will call it organized chaos......

Everything went very well today as well, except it did not rain which allowed for more time to be spent outside. We actually went about 15 minutes over time!

Over all, this week has gone well. It has been very tiring and I think we have all learned a lot - which is good because next week, we have between 25-40 kids ages 10-14 coming! We will have to change a lot of things because most of the kids this week were 4-10 and even a couple of babies.

Tomorrow we are having a work day around the camp and will be cleaning up from this weeks VBS to get ready for next week. Saturday, we will get a chance to sleep in a bit and then will do a bit of site seeing. The oldest still functioning church in Costa Rica is in Orosi, only a 10 minute walk away so I think we are going to go see that. At least that is the plan for now....

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Dacia