I planted grass in Guatemala!

Bucket List

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5. Plant grass in Guatemala
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So I should probably start at the beginning....woke up today and headed down to the main house and had a nice breakfast of waffles and strawberries. Afterwards I got my 1st assignment for the day, planting grass. And at first I was like oh no big just walk around, through some seed on the ground and be done. But oh buddy was I wrong, apparently that is NOT how they do it in Guat. Before I tell you, I'll show you a picture so you get the idea...

So basically in a nutshell, they go to a grassy areas, pick the grass, take it to the ungrassy area where they then proceed to dig tiny individual holes and and plant each individual blade of grass. It was the most frustrating thing I have ever done in my life. But at the same time I suppose it becomes kind of rythmic and you get in a groove. But still, somebody please tell these people about grass seed. I mean come on, really? But eventually (and after hours and hours) we got it done and it was actually kind of fufilling, not gonna lie.

Afterwards, I traveled to the girls home to do some work in there. I put felt on the legs of all the furniture and cleaned up a bit. By this time, I was exhausted so I headed back up to the main house, had lunch and met up with my bff Armando. Haha. In the meantime, it begins to hurricane outside. That leads me to my next adventure......

So Armando and I brace ourselves through the rain down to another bunk type house and being painting shutter, which was an experience within itself. But only becasue everythng with him is an experience. Haha. So we talked about life, caught up on the big stuff and small stuff too, had a paint war and ended up only getting 5 shutters sanded and painted. Epic fail. But that only means we have something else to do on another rainy day. Wanna see the results of Armando getting paint happy? Well here ya go...

It's actually worse than it looks, the picture does it no justice. After that, the day pretty much remains uneventful. Went down and had dinner with the team and sat in on their debrief. Andrew and Hannah came home. And now I'm back up in my room, updating the blog and such. Oh and here's my room, fo those who care. Sorry it's sideways.

I wish I had something really insightful for the day, but to be honest I didn't really come across anything that struck me particularly har. I found a ot of peace today. I laughed. It was all in all a pretty normal, good day day in the town of Chichicastenango. My prayer for all of you is that you found some sort of peace today as well. Well plans for tomorrow include building with the team and perhaps even go to a feeding program.

Night ya'll.

Daily Shout Outs

• Matt- Guess who I'm on the phone with right now?!? Yes baby, you (: You're sleepy and so cute cause you're talkin all quiet and kinda slurring you're words. I woke you up and I'm sorry. And I know it's late for you, so thank you for getting up and talking to me. Have I told you you're the best lately? I hope so cause you really are. I know today was a hard one and I love us for getting through them. Almost as much as I love you. I love you for being willing to camp out at the airport and for filling my in on pawn stars. Only 32 more days baby (or 31 in your time zone) and we can so do this! Forever and always skittle, mwah!
• Erin- Loved takling to you tonight girl. I hope you get my video to work cause it's epic. I love you and miss you. Hold down the fort.