2 Weeks

Hey ya'll well this is the end of my 9th week meaning I only have to more weeks left. It's exciting to be going home but I am also very sad to know I will be leaving. This is probably the second to last update you will be receiving.

Things went so well this week. We were able to finish all three stoves without a hitch. It was tough work, and this week has been unusually hot and we have not seen rain since last week. The families have been so nice to us, cooking us lunch and offering us drinks. Also the mason we hired has been fantastic. He is the brother of one of the women we are building stoves for. He learned everything quick and has been putting us to shame with his skills. I am confident he can build a stove on his own, which some of the villagers have taken notice of. He is already being offered to build more stoves that we aren't even funding.

Kevin was able to find more donations for us to build 2 more stoves in the community. This will give 5 families stoves in total, almost half of the womans group we are building for. We should complete those by Thursday of next week. The peace corp volunteers have been working closely with us as well. Our hope is that this project can continue without us there. All they should need is donations. We only have to build 6 more stoves to give everyone in that community a stove. If you are at all interested possibly making a donation towards a stove please contact me. They cost a little over a 100 US dollars to construct, so any donation can make a huge impact. I will be able to send these donations down to Comintancillo and have the peace corp continue the project. We will probably be setting up a donation account through friendsofguatemala.org.

In other news from the week, our visit to the Xocomile water park with the fammily was soooooo fun! This might have been the best water park I have ever been too! The rides were amazing and the kids didnt even stop to breath when they were riding them. Little Georgina and Irving past out completely on the way home. I was really cool to see their reaction to it all. They hardly ever leave Comintancillo, and they had never heard of Burger King when we went there for breakfast. At times I was worried they might be overwhelmed, but I think they really enjoyed themselves at the water park.

Things are starting to wind down here, this is our lat full week in Comi, the next blog will be from xela or antigua. Hope everyones summers are coming to a good end.