Work Day #2 (Tuesday)

Up at 5:30 and off to the kitchen at 6:00 for KP duty!!!! At about 7:40 all but Donna and I headed back down to the boys dorm to resume our tile removal and stacking! Donna and I stayed behind in the kitchen and made 162 chocolate and plain cupcakes for a birthday party for the boys tonight! Others will decorate them this afternoon! When we finished baking (hot work!) we went to continue helping with the stacking of tiles! Our flower was beginning to look pretty good! The work went faster because the men now had wheelbarrows! Soon after lunch we finished that side of the roof!!!!!!!! We realized there was ANOTHER side so we moved around there to begin! There was a overhanging bodega or patio on the other side that was about to fall down, so Verle (whom I had been calling Berle all week!) kicked it down. As soon as the wood hit the ground out ran a small possum. Katelyn said, "Aw, a possum!" Scott said "I never heard the word 'Aw' and 'possum' in the same sentence!" Immediately, Verle turned into a primal madman and went after it with a 2X4! Johnathan soon followed and they beat the life out of the poor creature. It never knew what hit him! Donna said, "Oh don't kill him!" It was too late!

This time instead of stacking the tiles around a tree we began stacking them by a brick wall. They got about 1/4 of the roof done by the time the 4:40 bell rang!

Linda, Kate, and Donna stopped early to go get cleaned up and ice the cupcakes for the party after supper.

After another delicious supper of arroz con pollo, some of the men took down the tables and set up chairs for the party. They met in our dining hall of the conference center. They were celebrating the boys with birthdays over the last 3 months I believe. They started by singing several praise songs, one of which we knew (in English), "Trading my Sorrows!" Then they had a couple of games. In the first game, about 20 boys paired off and they put a balloon between their chests and they were to pop it on the count of "Uno, Dos, Tres". For the second game the boys paired off again and a word was taped on each boys' back. They had their hands tied behind their backs also. There were to try to look at the word on their partners back and read what it said. They had fun and concluded the evening with cupcakes and coke, and a goodie bag of candy and treats for the birthday boys.

It was another great day!