Heading out to the Jungle

So, five of us rode out to the jungle again to help build an orphanage. This time we rode in the back of a cargo truck in hammocks. Quite beautiful and ever so wonderful! We then unloaded the cargo: oodles of reabar, forty concrete beams, and six thousand bricks. The kids in town helped us, so we got to go pay them in ice cream. So we worked until the tenth of July, and then we came back to Cochabamba to clean the Hacienda, guest house, and to prepare for the team coming in this weekend.

It was really interesting coming in to the jungle this time because I didn´t really want to go. I don´t usually feel at home, and the odds that you will get sick spike when going into those living situations. However I started to feel at home in the jungle this time. I got to play with the kids in their living environment and get my head around how they live every day. We played Tarzan by swinging from the jungle vines behind the church, and we got to go explore parts of the village. We also had a birthday party for Jhonny, one of the guys that works with us. In their culture, they crack an egg on the head of the birthday kid. We were a little hesitant to join in, but it was fun anyway. Yeah, I still prefer the city life to the jungle, but it just keeps getting better and better.