Thursday

Today was uneventful ... or as uneventful as a day in Guatemala can be for a "gringo" like me. We got up and ate breakfast (corn flakes and bananas) before walking to the Dreamer Center for Mass with the kids .

As on previous days, we rode in pickups to our work sites for construction on the houses. We worked on the walls and put the roof (at left) on today. It really does look like a building today. Here's the house at the end of the day today:

For supper, Oscar and his wife made us a delicious spaghetti. It was very good, but we had to eat very quickly and run back to the Dreamer Center for a game of soccer . It was St. Mary's High School vs. God's Child Project. I think St. Mary's lost badly. Again today, Miralda (?) was showered with gifts of candy and bubbles from the girls on my service team. Here she is enjoying bubbles:

Not knowing the first thing about soccer, I sat on the sidelines and watched. One of the guys from the Project was doing play-by-plays over the P.A. system. It came out of the speakers in a loud, garbled, unintelligible noise. Being bored, Fr. Shea decided to take the mike and parody the situation with even louder random noise. After the game, the Project provided some banana bread and "Mega Cola" for us. It was an enjoyable, but tiring day.