We're Here!!!

We're now all here. Jason and Samantha and Dave all arrived yesterday, with no trouble. Today we went on a tour of the Skylark Centre and also visited the little community it´s next to. We visited the school - eight concrete block rooms - and met the teachers; there are thirty pre-schoolers in one tiny room. The teacher told us that they have twelve pencils and 25 sheets of paper for the entire year. They also need toys for the girls at the school. This afternoon (after a short siesta in the hammocks) we went to market in Jinotepe (the nearest town). The worship team bought notebooks to give to another local school. School is free, but the kids have to bring notebooks or they can´t attend. Twelve hundred notebooks cost three hundred dollars - donated by a primary school in Sarnia.

It´s about thirty degrees here (sorry those of you in Ontario). The vegetation is so green and lush. We enjoyed mandarins right off the tree, and have been eating local pineapple.