Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Most of us were asleep by 9 last night. During the night we were serenaded by the sounds of the night here in Copan...barking dogs and crowing roosters. All made it to breakfast by 7 ready to get back to working along side the people of Santa Cruz. We worked from 8:30 to 4 and work we did! We continued to sift a mountain of gravel, haul pails of sand up steep hills, make cement blocks, build cement walls of a home, sew curtains with the village women, make friendship bracelets with boys and girls of all ages and share lots of laughter and smiles with our new friends. Evening found us sharing each others experiences and growing closer as we bond over all we are seeing and doing together. Despite language and cultural differences, a universal understanding of each other's desire to work hand in hand is making things happen here in Honduras.

-Karol Swenson