All of the boys arrived back to school around 4:30 with great enthusiasm. Most of them ate at the homes of their host families...either fish or shrimp tacos. All of them said they were great.
According to my i-touch, it was about 90 today. The sun was pretty intense, but there was a breeze. It cools off quickly as the sun sets. A couple of the guys said they were cold last night. I thought is was wonderful, although I did wake up this morning with a blanket around me.
They are with their fraternities now, by the village there were supposed to be at. They are preparing for next week. They have hung the banners they had prepared for the fiesta popular, which would have been a week from tomorrow. So the school looks like it is dressed for a parade. They are getting their mission tee-shirts this afternoon. So they are trying to make this as real as they can. The boys seem to be mixing well and are trying to be girl magnets. But again, there are a lot more girls than boys.
The high school students (grades 7,8 and 9 they moved the parenthesis and the spell check is in Spanish. Anyway, they had their mission cancelled as well, so they are camping in the school tonight as part of a overnight retreat.
Just a little background here. Usually, while the kids go on mission, the parents go on vacation. So they weren't planning to be home next week. Now with the change, some of the parents are taking their kids with them. About half of the kids will still be here however, so it seems that they are planning events throughout next week.
I have also contacted Jerry Meyer, who taught at O'Hara and is now in Tucson. He is working on service and rooms for next week, just in case we might need them. So we do have a back-up plan in the works.
Mr. Aur and Anna Lopez are trying to get concrete to CerroBlanco, probably this week-end, so the men can work on it during their Easter vacation. As suspected, the violence that cancelled the mission, really isn't in the area we normally go. So life will go on there, just without us.
I am posting a few photos on flickr. The address is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/msafari
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As usual - about the violence! I really hate that the kids aren't able to complete their mission work as planned. I know you all are trying to reorganize but so many kids in one place!
90 degrees - wow! we are gray and rainy this morning.
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