Two Weeks Left!

The La Dante community welcomed us Monday with some dancing and singing. They also said farewell this afternoon and we had a pinata to celebrate. We were all sad to leave our friends there.

Wow! We´ve been here a week already! We accomplished so much this week! Yesterday and this morning were spent building 3 cement stoves for 3 local families. The stoves improve the health of the people because they have chimneys so most of the smoke goes outside instead of staying inside their home. They don´t have a welder so we learned to used pieces of wire to make re'rod frames to put in the cement. There were no cement trucks involved but instead we mixed the cement ourselves ouside of the homes and then carried it in and poured it into forms. In a few weeks the cement will be set and ready to cook on!

This week we planted 268 tree seedlings in the ground and bagged 1,368 tree seeds and made 3 stoves!

Tonight we are staying in the nicest hotel in Grenada, which is such a vacation from the places we´ve been at all week. It has a monstrous swimming pool and an awesome restaurant. We all wish we were staying here longer. Tomorrow we´re going to a market and hiking the volcano and doing some zip lining before heading back to Managua. We fly from Managua to San Carlos on Sunday to start our work with Self Help International.