I am now in the costal city of Constitucion, Chile. I have been here for about 11 days now. My group and I are sleeping on the floor in a school. I am thankful the school has running water and that we have little cushions to sleep on. We eat our meals like a big family around the science labortary table. It has been raining buckets for the past few days, this complicates things a little bit. There is tons of wind and one would think this would help dry things, but it only pushes the rain around more. It is difficult to construct houses and help the people when it is soaking wet outside. My ocassional bucket showers are not proving to be very efficient, so I am thinking of taking my shampoo out into the street to enjoy the free showers God is providing. I washed my clothes the other day, the one day we had sun. They are still soaking wet. I don't know if they are ever going to dry! I had to buy more socks in the market today because I literally do not have any more dry socks to use! The world cup is on and the Chilean people are huge supporters of soccer. The other day Chile played their first game. The government set up a huge circus tent for the people that have lost their homes and we joined the group to watch the game at 7:30am! After the game we held a program for the kids of the community inside the tent. The event ended with the kids jumping all over me and rubbing sawdust (which was brought in to cover the mud) all over me. I thought it was fun until one of the little girls spit in my direction at the exact same time I was trying to breath and her spit landed in my mouth! Oh, what fun! I wish I could write more and explain all that is happening, but I do not have much time to get to the internet. I love all of you and thank you for your thoughts and prayers! 
I am now in the costal city of Constitucion, Chile. I have been here for about 11 days now. My group and I are sleeping on the floor in a school. I am thankful the school has running water and that we have little cushions to sleep on. We eat our meals like a big family around the science labortary table. It has been raining buckets for the past few days, this complicates things a little bit. There is tons of wind and one would think this would help dry things, but it only pushes the rain around more. It is difficult to construct houses and help the people when it is soaking wet outside. My ocassional bucket showers are not proving to be very efficient, so I am thinking of taking my shampoo out into the street to enjoy the free showers God is providing. I washed my clothes the other day, the one day we had sun. They are still soaking wet. I don't know if they are ever going to dry! I had to buy more socks in the market today because I literally do not have any more dry socks to use! The world cup is on and the Chilean people are huge supporters of soccer. The other day Chile played their first game. The government set up a huge circus tent for the people that have lost their homes and we joined the group to watch the game at 7:30am! After the game we held a program for the kids of the community inside the tent. The event ended with the kids jumping all over me and rubbing sawdust (which was brought in to cover the mud) all over me. I thought it was fun until one of the little girls spit in my direction at the exact same time I was trying to breath and her spit landed in my mouth! Oh, what fun! I wish I could write more and explain all that is happening, but I do not have much time to get to the internet. I love all of you and thank you for your thoughts and prayers! 