There comes a point where you can’t
do everything yourself and you know God is the only one with the power to fulfill
every want and need in this world whether it’s through you or someone else. UPH
is a wonderful program that serves God in great and wonderful ways but it’s
just impossible to reach every child here in Copan Ruinas. The camp I’m working
at is for the private school children because the public schools go year round
and those that don’t have the privilege of attending either school can’t afford
necessarily to take off of work because the money they make helps feed their
family who depend on them. This hit me pretty hard on Wed, the 1st
day of camp. I was teaching my class. We were singing songs and having a good
time and I look over and the sweetest little innocent eyes were looking at me
with interest. They were wondering “Who is that Gringo” “What are they saying” “It
looks like they are having fun”…but never jealousy! He would smile at the
thought of imagining himself being a part of our class and then get back to
reality and start to work on the school building. This sweet boy is maybe seven
and works alongside 2 grown men to help keep the school grounds clean and add
on! I feel really bad that we are practically right in his face showing him what
he’s missing out on and I wish I could just say “Hey why don’t you go play with
them while I do your job” but I can’t because it’s out of my control. I pray
that he knows Jesus and benefits from us being there. I know God has a plan and
purpose for him, I don’t know what it is but I do know that this boy with no
name has stolen my heart!
Okay enough of that emotional
stuff! Camp has been great. It’s hard for me because not very many of the
children know English like I was expecting. The camp is a bilingual camp and is
taught in English but soo many of them don’t understand me, especially the youngest
who have only been attending a bilingual school for a couple years. I have
learned though that I can connect with older kids. Naomi, Stephanie, and Marlon
are some of the kids I’ve connected the best with and they are going into 5th
and 6th grade….def. not the age I expected to be spending the most
time with, but I love it! And you don’t have to speak the same language to have
fun together!...Thursday during recreational activities I was down by the
futbol field playing with some of the kids and noticed little Mario who’s 5 going
over to the playground. One of our jobs is to make sure no children are off on
their own so I snuck up on him underneath the slide said “Boo” and tickled him.
HE LOVED IT!!! After that he would run and try to get away from me and I would
attack him and it would start over and over again. Next thing I know Diego, Aleph,
and Harvey joined in and they would point at me and say “Esta Lobos, Esta Lobos”.
After running around so much I got tired and decided to pretend to play dead. Then
they would sneak up on me and I would wake up again and trick them!! All we did
was run and laugh and connected even with the huge language barrier! Martha
came over about halfway through and told me that they were calling me a wolf! J
On Friday’s we don’t teach class
and we call it “Special Friday” because we do different activities with the
kids! Today we had a futbol tournament along with jump ropes, basketball, and
water games! We started the day off in our camp teams which are equally divided
into colors, mine being Green, and we made a poster and a cheer! My team named ourselves
the green monsters and we totally dominated in the tournament, just saying!! Lol
I was very proud of them. They were very positive and cheered on their
teammates. We had a blast!
We don’t have camp on the weekends
so UPH planned a hike to a waterfall tomorrow and we get to swim!! I’m excited
to get out and see what it’s like around Copan!
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