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Community Service Trip to Parramos, Guatemala
Parramos, Guatemala
July 6-July 15
Day Four: Monday, July 9
Parramos, Guatemala
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1. Everyone has a hearty breakfast in preparation for our first full day at the school. |
2. Nancy, who has been on the Guatemala trip before, in front of her favorite spot, the rose garden. |
3. What passes for rush hour in Parramos. |
4. Waiting for school to start. |
5. First graders before school starts. |
6. Margaret and Jeff get in a little last minute practice. |
7. A team of nursing students came down to help and observe the medical team. |
8. Our crack medical team in their scrubs. From the left: Elaine, Nancy, Melinda, Liz, Catherine, Kim and Janet. And in the white shirts, their translators, Clara, Louisa and Joanne. |
9. Volcano Acatenango, from the school yard. If you look closely you can see a puff of smoke coming from the peak, as this volcano, which last erupted in December 1972, is only quasi-dormant. |
10. Jonathan was the offical translator for the music team. |
11. Jeff and his percussion section. |
12. Some young admirers swarm Jeff. |
13. The Kindergarden classes were the hardest to work with, it was difficult to quiet them down after the Hokey Pokey in Spanish. |
14. Three fifths of the music team, Andreas, Jonathan and Margaret, regroups between classes. |
15. Jeff with some three grade percussionists. |
16. Our car comes to take us back to the hotel for lunch. During lunch break the school shifts from K through 6 grades to 7 to 9. |
17. During lunch I head over to the local internet cafe (snacks but no coffee), to upload the previous days pictures, here is David the proprietor. |
18. The school acquired some new white boards and new desks for the teachers. |
19. Catherine and Laura review paperwork for the infirmary. |
20. Our PE team, who never got a rest, since there were kids out in the schoolyard all day. |
21. Unders Dave's watchful eye, the girls proved just as passionate about football (soccer) as the boys. |
22. Anne and Kristin prepare art supplies for the next class. |
23. It took Dave a while to realize that the girls wanted him to play goalie, so they could take penalty shots. |
24. Our medical team interviews a mother and her children. |
25. After lunch the music team helps Bryan finish painting one of the classrooms. Here Jeff is on a roll . . . |
26. ...but Giuliano finds the ladder more uplifting. (Photo by Jeff Mills) |
27. Jonathan prefers being down to earth so he worked on the wainscotting. We worked in relatively dark colors since with wood smoke from the kitchen, and lots of little hands on the walls, the light color got dirty too quickly. |
28. One of our student nurses helps out with more than the medical supplies. (Photo by Brita Zitin) |
29. A checkup with smiles all around. (Photo by Brita Zitin) |
30. The checkup is over. (Photo by Brita Zitin) |
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Meanwhile, in San Bernabe, one of the outlying villages . . . (photos by Janet Tumilty) |
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31. Liz becomes a librarian for the afternoon. |
32.Avid book lovers. |
33. One of the older boys read his book to the younger chilren. |
34. Lunch is served, these were the leftovers from the Medical Team, evenly divided among the students. They wouldn't start until everbody was served, and until the portions were all the same. |
35. The Medical Team voted this little girl the sweetest in San Bernabe. |
36. One of the very few shy children. |
37. Group shot before leaving San Bernabe |
38. Liz and her new friends. |
39. Those new toothbrushes are hard to put down. |
| Back to Parramos, and the Valley of the Pines. | ||
40. Boys sort through the pants, looking for their size . . . |
41... while inside, the white shirts and plain tees . . . |
42. . . .are much more interesting to the girls. |
43. Pam headed the arts & craft team, while Kristin showed the girls how to braid key chains. |
44. Anne shows the girls how to start a key chain. |
45. Louise and Margaret lead an english class for a class of older children . . . |
46. . . . who sit at attention and repeat every word. |
47. One brave seventh grader tries his hand at the guitar, in front of the entire class. |
48. One young lady was very proud of her few notes. |
49. The principal, in the red shirt, picked up a guitar and let a song himself. |
50. The bucket of sidewalk chalk was a big hit, although possibly not with the janitor. |
51. Allison helps the littlest ones with the chalk. |
52. In the spirit of cooperation, the students paint their own desks. |
53. The music teacher puts new drum heads on the school drums. |
54. Giuliano, the head of the nusic team, gave one promising young guitarist a private lesson. (Photo by Pam Ryan) |
55. Ann discovered that beading was very popular with the high school girls. |
56. The school fund raiser, which sells candy, snacks and, of course, Coke. |
57. Katherine, Maragret and friends horsing around. |
58. Nancy fills out her patient recods. Meticulous records are keep by the medical team for all their patients. |
59. Dave leads us in a day one debriefing. |
60. Hannah and Anne are ready to go back to the hotel. |
61. One of the other residents at the hotel. |
62. The ladies unwind, after a busy day. Catherine is busy writing down her breakfast order for the next morning. To help the hotel, since we were the only residents, and to get through the meals more quickly, we would always order the next days meals in advance. |
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