For the Children

Well it was about 3 am when the house began to shake.  It felt as though a bus had driven into the building.  I waited for a moment and then the house shook again...."Was it another bus?"  Well it turns out to be an aftershock from a minor earthquake. 

I am not even sure to call an earthquake but the ground was definately shaking.  When Araceli and I woke up the next day we walked around and chatted with all the villagers about it, asking about their experience of the shake shake.

The time since the last blog post we have been nothing but busy.  We are preparing for a group to come here tomorrow so we have been busy running around getting quotations for building materials and house supplies.

We started about a week ago surveying bore holes.  We have a few to finish up but could not earlier this year because of water damage to the road.  As we began surveying I quickly realized the damage the rain did.  The roads were pretty horrible but we slowly slowly got through them.

 

After mass one day with Little E

In the midst of surveying bore holes we have been going out with Little E for mass in the villages.  It is quite a lot of fun.  One time we just went up the road, not too far and celebrated mass there.  The second time wwe had to go for about an hour to this other church.  At the second church we brought along dresses and crocheted hats and handed them out to orphans.  Of course it is always interesting finding children because those in charge of finding them have preference to help their own family.  So I think that some were not orphans but there is not much to do about that.

 

Out checking out our new house

Well the dog we have here in the compound has been having a pretty bad case of fleas and a genereal demeanor of "im a dirty dog, bark woof bark" so Araceli and I decided to give him a bath.  At first he was scared of it but then once we started washing him he stopped moving, I think he really enjoyed it.

 

Bathing the dog

We just got back on Saturday from the city.  We went there because we had to buy some groceries for the group coming this week.  But along with that we also had to get quotations on different supplies but also on different appliances for our house.  We spent some time out at our future house last week, checking out everything which needed to be done.

 

Araceli with the girls after mass

Today is another busy day.  I am arranging to pick up medicine today along with renting a bus but I have to drive to a city to check out the bus to make sure it is good.  Along with that we need to clean the guest house for the guests arriving tomorrow.  But it will all be good.

 

Handing out hats

We are looking forward to this week, we will be doing renovations of the new house along with doing medical clinics.  Next week we will be repairing some new bore holes.  We are excited for the group to be here and are looking forward to spending time with them.

After handing out dresses and hats