Time is flying

July 22nd, 2009 by Autumn Shapland

Monday afternoon I went to IHNFA the child care center from 1-4:30. The kids there are very much in need of attention and by the end of my day there I was completely exhausted. The kids here know absolutely no discipline and it’s really a shame. They are constantly hitting/ kicking each other, they don’t know the meaning of share, and don’t listen to us or the caregiver. It’s very hard to see kids around the age of 2 who are already cussing and hitting other children, it’s sad knowing the usually there are no volunteers at this care center and that one women, who seems like she could care less, is watching over these 20-40 kids by herself. I also meet all of the other volunteers here on Monday night. There are about 15 of us total all doing different projects so it was nice Monday night when we all got together and went to the pool hall. Tuesday we got 2 layers of adobe put on one of the sites and the other site is ready to put cement on the outside of so that one is almost done its getting exciting to see all the progress we’ve made even in the short time we’ve been here. I got really sick last night and I’m still not feeling well so this morning I didn’t make it up to the building site, but went to IHNFA for the whole day since it is right across the street from my home stay. I think it was from a fruit smoothie I had since they used milk and my stomach isn’t used to drinking unpasteurized milk, now I know better. Tomorrow the whole group of volunteers is traveling to the island of Utila so hopefully I am feeling better for the 7 hour drive. I’ll update next week sometime!