Today was so fun! The sun finally came out after about a week of hiding. The club was supposed to work in the garden today, but it was too muddy, so we went for a hike.
Franklin has been wanting to take us to a waterfall all week anyway, so we went with the whole club. It was much farther away than I expected, or rather it took, us longer to get there than expected, but it was worth it. We went down through a yuca field and crossed a crick, walked back up a big hill, ate grapefruits, went down a very steep hill (I decided to just slide down on my rear), walked through a crick for about 15 minutes, and then up another crick and there was the waterfall.
The waterfall was more a series of rocks on a steep hillside that the crick ran through, but at one spot the water probably dropped 6 feet. The kids really enjoyed climbing up the rocks to the top. The top picture kind of shows the height of the falls and the picture below shows David, a semester student working with Andre.
After a while of getting wet and climbing we stopped and prayed together- each kid thanking God for the thing they most enjoyed during our excursion.
When we finally got back to Los Higos, Tiva had prepared sogu (like 'so good') for us. Sogu is a plant that we had growing in the garden, that has edible roots. Tiva and the girls in the club had ground it into a flour and dried it a few weeks ago and today she prepared something like a hot chocolate drink with it. 
1 comment:
so many updates! hahah awesome. what is a "read" and a "crick?" do you mean creek? hahaha... and how do you slide on a read? I thought I read "head" at first, haha.
Oh dear, Arlene, even when it's tough, it pushes you to God, and wow. It's amazing to realize later the impact you've made on individual people, and to be shown love and grace.
I love you lots, and .. hahaha... I know the pink house is pink on the outside, but the inside is all blue! so your caption looks funny.
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