The community of La Prusia held another work party the next morning after the water lines were completed. We woke up early in the morning and made our way to the shool for the final time for this trip. Leaders of the community divided up the work between painting the bathrooms, installing new bathroom locks and general landscape cleaning. It was great to see the community come together and work on a project that benefitted their children. Arlyn also helped the teens in the community take care of a rodent problem that they were having. All I can say is Arlyn is great with his boots.
The day before we were presented with an option to travel to Santa Lucia for the evening. It was the only time we would be able to make the trip and we jumped on it as soon as we heard about the opportunity. As we got closer and closer the memories of the people, landscape and relationships we had made the previous year continued to come back to us. We got a chance to see and spend time with the families that we did our overnight stays with last year. Even though our time was limited it was great to see them and exchange stories once more. It was a very bitter-sweet ending to our day.
On the 17th we traveled back to Masaya and finalized our plan for the work we needed to complete in El Túnel. We will be assisting in the building of more kitchen stoves as well as restoring the floor in the school. Time is limited but we plan on working hard to complete our projects and objectives on time. The day ended for us by meeting with Track 1 for a visit to the market and Catarina. The view from Catarina was beautiful and we all got to enjoy a ride on a motor-taxi when we left.
Tomorrow we begin our work in El Túnel and we look forward to the challenges ahead.
Hasta Luego!
Justin Wallace
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