Service Project Day 1/Ultimate Frisbee

July 5th, 2010

Wow. I just got back from the first day of the service project, and it was pretty intense. WE had to move hundreds of cinder blocks down to near where the retaining wall is going to be, and cinder blocks rubbing against your body doesn't really flow with having a wicked bad sun burn... I mostly stacked blocks onto the new pile, and then took blocks off of the old pile and helped people load them up.

My sun burn has started blistering, which officially makes it a second degree burn. Marc also said I have sun poisoning, but we're not going to be telling anybody that. After lunch I was sent to the back portion of the school, which is unfinished, and we had to rake all of the brush out and separate metal, wood, trash, and brush into separate piles. The would-be classrooms are filled with earwigs and spiders...Not so much fun.

For breakfast I had cereal with strawberry yogurt serving as the milk, which was actually a lot better than I assumed it was going to be. I freaking love mis hermanas [my sisters]. They made me a plate of french fries for dinner! I have to say they were better than Five Guys, and I didn't even have them with salt!

At seven I went to the plaza de futbol [soccer field] to play some ultimate frisbee with the rest of the group. There were some families there, but Hanna's brother Jason is definitely the best. Hannah is teaching him some English, and he is helping me with my Spanish. For a twelve-year-old he's got a lot of spunk, but he's hilarious. On the way back home he was trying to figure out who I liked since we live near each other and it's a walk from the center of town. He said Kerry. I said no. He said no. Then he said Mateo. I said no. He said yes. So apparently I like Mateo. But right as he got to his house he said I liked Dan. I was like no, we go to school together, so no. But now he's convinced I like Dan. Whatevs. He's twelve, what's he gonna do about it?

This is definitely the latest I have stayed up since I've gotten here. So it's time for me to go to bed. Buenas noches!