Friday, August 1, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Rubber Botas
Tomorrow is Saturday, and Saturday is Umberto´s day off, so he is taking us to his coffee farm! We bought some rubber-botas for the trip. Mine are white! But not for long. Maybe we will get to drink more coffee...Haven´t slept for 4 days...heheheHAHA..
Sigh, time to walk home now. Ciao.
Sigh, time to walk home now. Ciao.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Verde
My fingers are green.
Tom´s elbows are green.
Both of our pants are speckled green.
There is even a little part of my toe that is green.
But, thankfully, some of the bathroom walls are green too.
Tom´s elbows are green.
Both of our pants are speckled green.
There is even a little part of my toe that is green.
But, thankfully, some of the bathroom walls are green too.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Language Oopies...
List of oopsies (that we know about)...
* Dirty horse? (Is that your horse?)
* This is a boob spoon? (Is this a little spoon?)
* Who are you doing tomorrow? (What are you doing tomorrow?)
* When are the animals in the trees? (Which animals are in the forest?)
* Poop! (cake!)
* It was my great pleasure to have you drive us. (Thank you for driving us!)
Words that we have taught our host family...
* Boogers! (I was nearly rolling on the floor laughing when I caught Tom teaching them that one!)
* Sneeze
* Mess
* Dirty horse? (Is that your horse?)
* This is a boob spoon? (Is this a little spoon?)
* Who are you doing tomorrow? (What are you doing tomorrow?)
* When are the animals in the trees? (Which animals are in the forest?)
* Poop! (cake!)
* It was my great pleasure to have you drive us. (Thank you for driving us!)
Words that we have taught our host family...
* Boogers! (I was nearly rolling on the floor laughing when I caught Tom teaching them that one!)
* Sneeze
* Mess
Friday, July 25, 2008
Buenos Dias...
Well, another amazing morning. We headed to town first thing and spend the remaining cash we have for this mission on shoes, shirts, and seeds. The clothes are needed for the residence of the rehabilitation house and the seeds are for the agricultural project for the families. You see, once things start growing, you can harvest some seeds for the next crop, but you need some seeds to start with!
The gratitude that has been shown towards your donations has been truely heart warming and humbling. We keep telling them it wasn't just us, but our family and friends in Canada. Yay Canada! (We will try to hold off on passing on the kisses when we see you next!)
We are going to continue on with the bathrooms today. What a 'beautiful' green they will be! Kermit would love it.
Hopefully pictures to come....
The gratitude that has been shown towards your donations has been truely heart warming and humbling. We keep telling them it wasn't just us, but our family and friends in Canada. Yay Canada! (We will try to hold off on passing on the kisses when we see you next!)
We are going to continue on with the bathrooms today. What a 'beautiful' green they will be! Kermit would love it.
Hopefully pictures to come....
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Hola!
We have had an amazing day.
Your generosity allowed us to buy a huge load of groceries this morning! We divided up the goods into packages and even had the opportunity to go and deliver to a family ourselves. There are some unbelieveable stories that we have heard, and believe me, your generosity has made a difference today.
The family we met today (a mother and a two year old child) have recently walked four days from their village in the mountains to seek help for the young daughter - she is paralized on her left side. They had to leave because her life was in jeopardy, not from her injuries, but from the community because a disability is a curse. The mother's brother was hung from a tree when he was 5 because he was not able to walk yet. So she ran away for fear they would take her daughter too. The mission has provided a short term home, and today you have provided a load of food for them.
We are also in the middle of another project - bathrooms! The primary school across the street (a very resource-poor school) is in dire need of some paint in their bathrooms. The mission has purchased the paint and we get to slap it on the walls! We just washed it today and now we are waiting for the walls to dry so we can finish the job tomorrow. The children are pretty confused as to why 2 english whities are hanging out and hosing down the walls in el bano! Oh the sign language we have had to use.
I had my first language-oopsie today while visiting the family. What was suppose to be "is that your horse?" apparently came out "dirty horse!". Oopsie.
Uh oh...We have to go, or we will be walking home!
Hasta luego!
Your generosity allowed us to buy a huge load of groceries this morning! We divided up the goods into packages and even had the opportunity to go and deliver to a family ourselves. There are some unbelieveable stories that we have heard, and believe me, your generosity has made a difference today.
The family we met today (a mother and a two year old child) have recently walked four days from their village in the mountains to seek help for the young daughter - she is paralized on her left side. They had to leave because her life was in jeopardy, not from her injuries, but from the community because a disability is a curse. The mother's brother was hung from a tree when he was 5 because he was not able to walk yet. So she ran away for fear they would take her daughter too. The mission has provided a short term home, and today you have provided a load of food for them.
We are also in the middle of another project - bathrooms! The primary school across the street (a very resource-poor school) is in dire need of some paint in their bathrooms. The mission has purchased the paint and we get to slap it on the walls! We just washed it today and now we are waiting for the walls to dry so we can finish the job tomorrow. The children are pretty confused as to why 2 english whities are hanging out and hosing down the walls in el bano! Oh the sign language we have had to use.
I had my first language-oopsie today while visiting the family. What was suppose to be "is that your horse?" apparently came out "dirty horse!". Oopsie.
Uh oh...We have to go, or we will be walking home!
Hasta luego!
Monday, July 21, 2008
WOW!
So, we are here! And to say that this is the most beautiful country I have ever seen would be an understatement. No pics for you yet though, the internet is a little slow...
We had a very entertaining only-Spanish-speaking driver that picked us up from the airport in San Jose and brought us to Turrialba. He is a coffee farmer and introduced us to the local cappucino. Starbucks has nothing on them!
Our host family is fantastic...We laughed our way through some Spanish ¨conversation¨ over dinner last night. Did we mention only a few speak English?
There are so mnany things that have happened already, just can´t wait to show and tell you. This morning we are planning a grocery trip and a few other activities we can help with.
To sum it up in one word? WOW!!!
Please keep us in your prayers. Your love and support mean so much to us.
Love Candice and Tom
(For those of you who are interested, our GPS says we are at 9.85N, 83.6W.)
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We had a very entertaining only-Spanish-speaking driver that picked us up from the airport in San Jose and brought us to Turrialba. He is a coffee farmer and introduced us to the local cappucino. Starbucks has nothing on them!
Our host family is fantastic...We laughed our way through some Spanish ¨conversation¨ over dinner last night. Did we mention only a few speak English?
There are so mnany things that have happened already, just can´t wait to show and tell you. This morning we are planning a grocery trip and a few other activities we can help with.
To sum it up in one word? WOW!!!
Please keep us in your prayers. Your love and support mean so much to us.
Love Candice and Tom
(For those of you who are interested, our GPS says we are at 9.85N, 83.6W.)
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