As life picks up and days get long it seems like this gets less, but we will fight for our right to blog!!! the last couple of days have been packed with randomness, from the office, to schools, to stuffing trash into tires, mixing cement, eating too much pita, going to church while trying to communicate with people from Norway, Ireland, England and Locals, By the time we leave we will be good at sign language and waving our arms, we’ve been swimming, to goodbye parties for people we don’t really know, and last but not least trying to sleep…which, praise the Lord, is getting better as the heat gets drop kicked out of here.
Drew and I have been working on a very “green” and stinky project. Paidia got an idea from this organization called Earthships, where they take materials that this world can’t break down and turns them into masterpieces. But because there isn’t a lot of money on Paidia’s side we had to be creative. Drew and I have been stuffing tires full of old tiles and dirt, after they are nice and stuffed they get stacked on top of one another. So when stuffing and stacking were done we stapled chicken wire all around them and filled the empty spots full of trash, now let me tell you something about trash here, its abundant and gross, people throw dead animals, bras, underwear, shoes, moldiness and more all over the place. Drew and I put gloves on and headed out to the land of nastiness, but at least the streets are a little cleaner since we finished, the best part was when a guy drove by and gave us this strange look that went something like, “i put that trash there for a reason, who the heck do these Americans think that they are…..” not throwing trash or picking it up its a very foreign concept here. So we got the tires stuffed, stacked, chicken wired and surrounded by trash, after that we mixed cement and placed it all over the masterpiece, which is on its way to being a compost toilet where the decomposed poop will be used for the garden, i don’t think the idea of eating peoples poop sits very well with me…..what do you think? (we’ll put up pictures later)
Drew and I are in a good place as far as growth, learning to communicate better and learning more about what’s really going on over here. We could use your prayers as home sickness kicks in and the Visa situation plays its self out. We love you all and thought you should know that we saw a Hummer in Bethlehem…
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