Traveling for an extended period of time can get to you
after a while, throw in 20 something strangers all with different personalities
and lifestyles you are bound to clash eventually. Add losing a camera battery
and the battery you do have, won’t charge. By midweek I needed an attitude
adjustment. And I got it while working with the kids at the school, their sweet
smiles and kind hearts can’t help but change you. They have so little and yet they are so happy.
I started out the first week with Leo Trey Fetch cooking the
lunch meals for our crew. This was a challenge and led to some interesting
meals. Some tasty and some, not so much. I can say most of what we used was
processed food items that people has packed at Project Humanity’s request. I have since learned that tuna and applesauce packets go a long way! Leo
and I were able to figure out what we could add together and get a meal. Note
to self -when cooking with someone you don’t know, make sure they read the
direction on the soup base can before they add any to the pot……Saying that the
meal was salty was an understatement. Leo added the entire contents of the
canister when all we needed was a couple of tablespoons…
Most days at lunch I
would eat a cup of rice, or some diced tomatoes, since I was not eating processed foods. I
would like to say I lost a ton of weight.
Leo and I serving up lunch.
The PH crew eating a tasty meal
On day 4 I was able to teach my art class, well sort of, by the
time I had arrived the kids had already pretty much glued the triangles on
their pages, I helped them finish. I had brought various bright colors of small
cut triangles and black construction
paper and glue sticks to make a paper mosaic. There was no pattern to
their placement, they just glued the colors they liked onto the page, and
smiled while they did. They were so proud of their work you couldn’t help be
happy too, their smiles are infectious.
They had a lot of fun making their artwork!
That same afternoon the other members of the team spent their
time at Mayor Mike’s garden to help plow for planting. They plowed using hoes,
I was impressed. Nano Lo one of our awe fa's wouldn’t give up, she had 80 and 90 year old women out
there and she wasn’t about to let them show her up…Mama Esther’s 90 something
year old mother was out there helping too, these woman are not afraid of hard
labor. This was the day that my husband Mac and Jeff Jurgis earned the
respect of Mayor Mike and the blisters on their hands proved it. Job well done
guys…
Kat and one of the local women
Nano knows how to hoe
Tan and Mac working on fencing
Kat, and Rowena working on the farm
Mac playing zombie farmer in a trench they dug
I realize this entry is all over the place, but that is how
my journey was at times, all over the place,
doing what needed to be done and having God open my eyes to His plans
Although I am a nurse you can see that Project Humanity uses
all types of people on their trips. All you have to have is a willing heart…
and a working passport! For more information and to sign up to help go to www.projecthumanity.com
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