We are sorry that we have not been able to offer more posts,,,the internet has been slow or down for the past day. This post was written on Saturday night.
Hello from Hosanna House! Today is our first full day here in Belize, while Don, Lisa, Brittany, Jason and Conner start to make their long journey here. It was supposed to be a laid back kind of day for those already here....but I can't say that it was exactly "laid back", but it was day of great fun!
After finally getting a full night's sleep, most of us woke up feeling refreshed to start our "day 1" of being here. Some are still not acclimated to the 2 hour time difference and woke up VERY early, but even those people made good use of their time by reading and drinking coffee (can you guess who that was???) Plans can and will change without notice regularly here in Belize, but the key word here is "flexibility". The original plan was to hang out this morning and then go swimming in the river this afternoon with the girls. Plans had to be changed -- but it was a fun- filled day getting reaquainted with friends we knew from last year, and getting to know a lot of new girls that have started living here in the past year. After breakfast Doug, Linda and Deb tackled cleaning the girl's room here in our apartment because, well, let's just say, it needed some attention. Lauren, Bekah and Jada taught some of the girls new dances -- the Cha Cha Slide, the Macarana, Cotton Eye Joe and the Hokey Pokey. The Hosanna House girls also taught our girls some new dances and songs as well. Michael, Matthew and Mark could be found on the court playing basketball with some of the boys (and a girl or two) and Andrew took to the "soccer field" (the yard) with a number of the girls and boys. When the younger children woke up from naps, they got to come out and all of us became human jungle gyms! Kids could be found on many of our hips, and some of them could be found on our backs and necks. These children here are just like children everywhere - they just want to be loved and love to have fun. Most of them love to have their pictures taken and looking at themselves on the digital screen (still have some that are a bit camera shy, but I am determined to get their pictures by weeks end!) and what they love even more is taking our cameras and taking pictures. This is my third summer coming to Hosanna House and I can truly say that I love these children. If playing is hard work, then you can imagine how exhausted we are. It's been a wonderful first full day here in Belize.
The Heavner's (and Brittany) and the Duncan's arrived safely to us around supper time. Details of their exciting travel adventure will be, hopefully, in the next post. It's exciting to have us all together now! Oh, and for those of you wondering about the weather.....well, let's put it this way -- from the sounds of the wild weather you are having back, home and the heat, we are in a much better place!
Deb for the team
Hello from Hosanna House! Today is our first full day here in Belize, while Don, Lisa, Brittany, Jason and Conner start to make their long journey here. It was supposed to be a laid back kind of day for those already here....but I can't say that it was exactly "laid back", but it was day of great fun!
After finally getting a full night's sleep, most of us woke up feeling refreshed to start our "day 1" of being here. Some are still not acclimated to the 2 hour time difference and woke up VERY early, but even those people made good use of their time by reading and drinking coffee (can you guess who that was???) Plans can and will change without notice regularly here in Belize, but the key word here is "flexibility". The original plan was to hang out this morning and then go swimming in the river this afternoon with the girls. Plans had to be changed -- but it was a fun- filled day getting reaquainted with friends we knew from last year, and getting to know a lot of new girls that have started living here in the past year. After breakfast Doug, Linda and Deb tackled cleaning the girl's room here in our apartment because, well, let's just say, it needed some attention. Lauren, Bekah and Jada taught some of the girls new dances -- the Cha Cha Slide, the Macarana, Cotton Eye Joe and the Hokey Pokey. The Hosanna House girls also taught our girls some new dances and songs as well. Michael, Matthew and Mark could be found on the court playing basketball with some of the boys (and a girl or two) and Andrew took to the "soccer field" (the yard) with a number of the girls and boys. When the younger children woke up from naps, they got to come out and all of us became human jungle gyms! Kids could be found on many of our hips, and some of them could be found on our backs and necks. These children here are just like children everywhere - they just want to be loved and love to have fun. Most of them love to have their pictures taken and looking at themselves on the digital screen (still have some that are a bit camera shy, but I am determined to get their pictures by weeks end!) and what they love even more is taking our cameras and taking pictures. This is my third summer coming to Hosanna House and I can truly say that I love these children. If playing is hard work, then you can imagine how exhausted we are. It's been a wonderful first full day here in Belize.
The Heavner's (and Brittany) and the Duncan's arrived safely to us around supper time. Details of their exciting travel adventure will be, hopefully, in the next post. It's exciting to have us all together now! Oh, and for those of you wondering about the weather.....well, let's put it this way -- from the sounds of the wild weather you are having back, home and the heat, we are in a much better place!
Deb for the team
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