Hey everyone, it has been a long time since I last wrote so I thought it was about time that I wrote to you again. So we are now just finishing up our last week of break before heading into our third placements. This time our break has been filled with relaxing instead of work and we are now ready and re-energized to go back for another round of placements.
On our break we did lots of fun things, it was mostly our “March break” that we didn’t get in March, so we spent it doing day trips and just relaxing on base. We were able to go out to Caye Caulker twice on this break, where we just swam, shopped, and snorkeled. Snorkeling was awesome. I was able to swim with moray eels, stingrays, nurse sharks and barracudas. I also touched the stingrays and the nurse sharks. We fed the barracuda only inches from our faces, that was a little bit more frightening when you can see their long sharp teeth. We went to a local resort to swim a few times, as well as going to a waterfall in San Ignacio to jump off cliffs and go on the rope swing.
Last weekend was the National Agricultural Fair of Belize. The main attraction to this fair is the National Rodeo, which we had the privilege to watch, and the opportunity to watch two of our team members ride in. Liesl and Meghan both were able to ride and compete in the National Rodeo. Meghan was able to show her horse in the English jumping as well as compete in the western events and Liesl was competed in all the western events. Liesl was able to place second in the arena race and from that able to take home one hundred dollars in prize money. It was awesome to be able to see our team members riding and doing so well in the National Rodeo.
A sad part of this break was watching Laura go home. She was to be unable to finish her Independent Learning Course here in Belize because of shipping delays and needed to head home. She left after completing two months of this journey with us and there is now a hole to fill in her place. She was a spiritual leader while she was here, and continues to be a role model for the team. We are excited to be reunited with the entire team together in the two weeks that we will have after we get home completing this coop.
My third placement will be In His Will Ministries, and I will be going there with Stanley, Rachelle, and Lauren. It is owned by a Canadian family of missionaries that run a library and learning centre for the kids of the surrounding neighborhood to come to study and be tutored. So I will mostly be working with the kids in the learning centre, tutoring and helping them to study. I am really looking forward to the opportunity to go there. The first week of the third placement will be spent on base because the missionary family is in Guatemala. Stanley and I will be gutting out one of the dorms here on the base for the first three days, and I am hoping to be able to spend the last two days at the King’s Children’s home where I spent my first placement. I would like to get a chance to see the children one more time and be able to say goodbye.
That is all i have to say for now..
Benjamin
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