So Yesterday was the official first day of the dry season! It is unbelievably hot. The average temperature for April is 110-120. Which is around 34 - 45. It in insanely warm. Anyways, a lot has happened since my last blog.
My new placement is at King's Children's Home Orphanage. I'm here with Elena Knibbe. It is a tough site to see. There are 55 kids here ranging from ages 0-15. We take the kids to the park, and painted their rooms and bunk beds. It is really sad to see all these children who either don't have parents or their parents cannot take care of them right now. Some of the kids are sexually abused as well.
There is a girl there, her name is Lisa and she is 23. She has volunteered at the orphanage for two months by herself. She has only been here a week. She is living with the owner of the orphanage and she is one scary woman, very intimidating. So Elena and I have made friends with Lisa and invited her over for the weekend. Since she is here by herself it's difficult to see touristy stuff. So I'm pretty sure she's going to come over every weekend now; we'd like that.
This weekend we went to a market early Saturday morning. It was actually a farmer's market, and it sucked. We left there and got some ice cream. After that we went to Banana Bank Lodge. It's a hidden hotel with a really nice pool. The best part of the day was Rule #3. NO T-SHIRTS OR SHORTS TO BE WORN IN THE POOL. This made us all jump and scream because we usually have to wear t-shirts and shorts over our bathing suits. Everyone ripped off their clothes and jumped in! It was a beautiful day and only a couple of us got sunburnt, but not badly.
After swimming we went and watched Liesl horseback ride. She horseback rides back home and is participating in the annual horse rodeo in Belize. We all hope she wins and are going to watch her Sunday April 29th!!!
-aislinnn
My new placement is at King's Children's Home Orphanage. I'm here with Elena Knibbe. It is a tough site to see. There are 55 kids here ranging from ages 0-15. We take the kids to the park, and painted their rooms and bunk beds. It is really sad to see all these children who either don't have parents or their parents cannot take care of them right now. Some of the kids are sexually abused as well.
There is a girl there, her name is Lisa and she is 23. She has volunteered at the orphanage for two months by herself. She has only been here a week. She is living with the owner of the orphanage and she is one scary woman, very intimidating. So Elena and I have made friends with Lisa and invited her over for the weekend. Since she is here by herself it's difficult to see touristy stuff. So I'm pretty sure she's going to come over every weekend now; we'd like that.
This weekend we went to a market early Saturday morning. It was actually a farmer's market, and it sucked. We left there and got some ice cream. After that we went to Banana Bank Lodge. It's a hidden hotel with a really nice pool. The best part of the day was Rule #3. NO T-SHIRTS OR SHORTS TO BE WORN IN THE POOL. This made us all jump and scream because we usually have to wear t-shirts and shorts over our bathing suits. Everyone ripped off their clothes and jumped in! It was a beautiful day and only a couple of us got sunburnt, but not badly.
After swimming we went and watched Liesl horseback ride. She horseback rides back home and is participating in the annual horse rodeo in Belize. We all hope she wins and are going to watch her Sunday April 29th!!!
-aislinnn
1 comment:
hey asslin
well the dry heat has begun way before yesterday as if you never felt it.I'm sorry that the market sucked usually it's alot of fun that's so weird well at least your whole day wasn't ruined cuz you got to swim with your bikini and no shorts yeah for no shorts ha ha well you have a great day playa. Later.
ev
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