Cor dogg's and C Brew's post

Hello friends,

Day five has been awesome here in Belize. We started the day early by eating family breakfast together. Soon afterwards a group went to the store and purchased more supplies and shoes for the students at St. Luke's. Every child received a new pair of shoes! Meanwhile, the group who did not go to the store, got to experience some awesome wildlife; including a dozen wild iguanas, several lizards that run upright on two feet, hummingbirds, five howler monkeys and a red headed woodpecker.

Cory learned all about photography from Zach today. While observing several huge iguanas roam around on private property, Zach informed Cory that he would crawl over the fence to get a closer look. Cory naturally advised against this but Zach replied, "you never miss a photo op!" Five minutes later Zach came yelling like a girl as a dog came running out of the house. Fortunately Zach made it over the fence before the poodle bit him.

When the group reunited mid-morning, we made a plan and headed out to St. Luke's. The thirty minute drive was a fun one as kids greeted us along the way and ran along side the van. As we pulled up to the school, approximately 25 students were waiting for us on a day in which school was not in session. We immediately began to paint the exterior of the school while some of the team members played with the children. The school looked fresh with its new "skin light" color on the outside. (that's what it said on the can!)

After an hour of playing and working in the intense heat, we fed the kids peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fruit loops and ice cream for lunch. Dr. Meg is all about nutrition! After lunch, we  revisited all the games we had invented during the last two days...slam ball, cricket soccer, tree hoops and other mixtures of american sports. There is something about competition that brings people together in a magical way. For the majority of the day, while the team worked, the children were out in the yard playing their little hearts. My favorite part of the day was when we tied an old basketball rim to the trunk of a tree in the school yard and played 6 on 6 with the kids (with the upward basketball and soccer balls we brought:) The look in their eyes was priceless after they made a goal, they would scream and run around giving high fives to their friends. 

After hours of playing with the kids, we eventually had to say goodbye. We all circled up to pray as Corey gave a little speech letting all the kids know how much God loves them and how much we love them.  So we gave all our hugs and kisses to those kids and then hopped in the van to leave.  As we rode down the dirt road it was a precious site to watch those children chase after the van as fast as their little legs would let them.

 We decided to cook dinner ourselves tonight and eat in the villa as a team. We As we speak TJ is conquoring everyone's fear right now and climbing up into the attack to try and fix our iguana problem.  Everynight we hear their claws running across the roof and i'm not going to lie, it is seriously freaky!!  So hopefully we will have news tomorrow and results from TJ's adventure with the iguana.  We are about to have some group bonding time and play a game of big booty with Dr Meg and Miss Kelly, and i promise you we will laugh really hard tonight::)