Living out of a Suitcase

This is my life, living out of a suitcase. The rooms are too small to have any drawers so we keep all our stuff in our suitcases under our beds. And every Sunday we pack up again and go to our placements only to find no drawers once again. Then Fridays we pack up again and go back to the base.

Aaanyways, my placement has been going really well. The people that we are staying with are really nice and the work is fairly easy. We spend our days raking leaves, doing laundry, cleaning, dishes, or baking.

This past weekend we went to the Blue Hole and a cave. The cave was so creepy and really dark. We only had 5 flashlights for 20 of us. We saw some neat Mayan stuff in the cave also and a lot of us went swimming in the dark too.

After that, we made our way to the Blue Hole. We had packed some sandwiches so we ate those at a picnic table and then went down to the water. The water was so blue/green! It was beautiful. There was only a couple of other people there, but it was alright. The water went really deep really fast and it was kinda chilly. The fish weren't afraid of you at all either, they swam right inbetween your legs, kinda scary.

After we left the Blue Hole we were on the bus on the way back and we saw a couple kids picking out of the garbage dump looking for some scraps. We stopped the bus and they came running up to us. We gave them the rest of our bread, peanut butter, and jam and they were so thrilled. It really felt good to do that.

On Sunday we had devotions in the morning and we went to a pastor's house at night because the church service had been cancelled. So we had the whole congregation plus all 20 of us in this small kitchen. The singing was very loud and there was LOTS of dancing. At the end the pastor called a couple people up to get rid of demons? He put his hand on their heads and they would come falling to the ground crying, I'm not sure what he was doing but it was weird. A couple of people from our group went up and he could tell what was bothering them exactly, it was really weird but a neat experience.

Overall, I'm learning a lot here. Everyday we learn something new even if it's just something small like the fact that oranges are juicier on the bottom because the juice runs down when they're hanging on the tree. I way rather learn by doing than be sitting in a classroom!

That's all for noww

-Aislinnn