Road Trip

Today, we visited the technical school and the site where the girl’s school will be built. We spent most of the day in the van. There is a consensus in our group that we all prefer the boys at the farm to the boys in the technical school. The technical school boys are much more bold and loud and a bit less polite. Yanni commented that the farm school boys made her feel like a princess because they held doors for her and helped her out of the van. The technical school boys are, as the volunteer coordinator Raul says, city boys.

The lunch there was nicer than what we’ve been used to: large portions of meat, seasoned rice, and potato salad. We sat with a volunteer group from the children’s school visiting from Cincinnati. At both the children’s school and the technical school, volunteers eat separately from the boys.

After lunch we went to the site where the girl’s school will be built. The area is steep and it has a beautiful view of the valley below. There are only two buildings there now, plus a couple of citrus trees.

Having been in the van most of the time between seven AM and five PM, we were all glad when we got back to the farm.

Elizabeth