Day 5--Leaders of the Day: Ranch, Adriana, Aidan

Day 5

            Today was our final workday at the school and we concluded our work on the fence and painting the Dining Hall. We are all dreading the time tomorrow when we have to say a final goodbye to all of our new friends here. We will miss giving piggyback rides, playing tag, chasing our stuff around the school, and spending time with the school children.

            After the workday finished, we got to play a game with some of the local students. There were two teams the US and Belize (mixed with Belizean and American students on each team) and each one had to try and get across the other side. The challenging part was that the field was set up into squares from which we had to navigate a path without leaving a trail of our past attempts, one mess up and we needed to start all over. The game became really intense as the paths came closer to the end. We were all dead-set on winning although nobody ever said that there was a winner and a loser.

            After we had finished the game and had eaten another delicious lunch, the group that had gone to the river yesterday went to the chocolate factory, and the group that went to the chocolate factory went tubing. The tubing group had a wonderful time; they also ate termites like the last group and had a belly flop contest (the top scorers were Isabelle and Sam). The chocolate team made some excellent chocolate and it tasted even better because it was stone crushed and hand made, literally.

            In the evening it was evident that we are all still very jetlagged, because everyone was falling asleep at 8:30 Belize time. If only we fell asleep that early on school days. . .  amaright!?!?

Tomorrow is another day!

Sincerely,

Aidan, Adriana, and Ranch