July 15, 2009

Good Morning from Belize! It is another warm, or I could say HOT day in Belize. We did have a short cooling rain about 6:30 this morning.
It is now half-time of our trip here. We have had an interesting time so far - we have been able to do some of the things that were in the plan and we have had many interruptions to our plan. But we know it is all in God's plan and we can see that. We are grateful to know that many are praying for our time here - we feel it.





Yesterday, Tuesday, was an example of our plans being interrupted. We had made arrangements last week for a meeting between Ismael and Dale to talk about school board for 9:00 Tuesday. At 8:30 Ismael calls to say there is another meeting he had to go to in Orange Walk, so they made new arrangments for a 1:00 meeting. That meant we needed to reorganize our day. That's how it has been going.





Pictures: Carla has been left with Jean Giles car to sell. Every morning Dale drives it down by Hotel Maya so people can see it is for sale. Every evening we go back to pick it up. So far no bites.





Raymond is a young man who lives nearby and often comes and asks Carla for a job. Instead of just asking for food, as most of them do, he asks for a job. So yesterday we hired him to pull the weeds out of our walkway. We were so impressed with young Raymond.



He stuck to the task for about 4 hours in the hot sun and not only did he pull the weeds, he got everyone of them, picked up what he had pulled and put it in the trash can. He told me he is 13 and goes to St. Paul's by the Sea (a Catholic school) He also told me, "This is an excellent job for me because I love to chop (mow the lawn with the machete) and I love working with the plants." We gave him drinks of water often and a sandwich for lunch, and paid him $7.00 BZ. I also gave him a granola bar for a snack and he said he'd never had such a snack and asked where in the world did I get it.

We had dinner at Albert and Romalda's last night. Romalda made us tostadas and, of course, they were delicious! Well, I better get to work - lots of scanning I need to do today. Dale has a meeting with a man later this afternoon, so we will be out and about Corozal.