Karaoke Night

Who doesn't love a great karaoke night?! We do!! It was fun to have a team building activity at a karaoke bar, most especially because we've got several fantastic singers on our team!

Ken woos the ladies with "Unchained Melody" - go Kenny!

The guys floor us with their mad singing skills!

Kenny show us his stuff as he break dances.

One big happy karaokeing family. :)

Lindsay and Jake do a "Country Roads" duet.

Girls just wanna have fun!

Sunrise From My Rooftop

5 am...one of the most peaceful times of day. No, I don't get up at that hour! But sometimes I wake up and can't help going to the roof to watch a gorgeous sunrise. This is the prettiest one I've seen. I think. Anyway, isn't it lovely?

Our Last Wave is Here!

We can hardly believe the time is flying so fast, we are on our last 6 week stretch here. Where has the time gone? As I think about it, it's gone to projects and people and learning all about a country called Belize in Central America. What a sweet experience we are having here.

Here we all are!

A little inactive

You may have noticed I haven't been all that active on here for over a week. I'm working on a video project right now, a compilation of all the projects in the hopes it will benefit prospective funders of HELP, future participants and current participants. It's coming along (slowly!) but I'm having fun with it. Look for it in August!

Busman Arnold

This is where we live! It's a 5-story guest house and we rent out the top 3 floors. Two floors are bedrooms, kitchen and very, very large patio and the 5th floor is exclusively a patio. It's beautiful and most importantly, it's home!

Busman Arnold is the name of the architect. He built the house next door to us as well and it's known as the Busman Arnold house and is known to everyone in the town by the same name.

The bottom two levels are businesses - a cafe, insurance company and a daycare.

Home sweet home!

Up Go The Chimmneys

Adobe Stoves #1 and #2 are coming right along! The white maul takes several days to completely harden. While they harden, we are getting the chimneys and other metal coverings prepared so the stoves can be used as soon as possible.

This is Kyle stepping out of the house where the chimneys were custom made for the stoves.

Here is one chimney installed at our very first stove.

And here is the second chimney going up. Mr. Chee (on the left) is the craftsman who made the chimneys.

Sarah, Lindsay and Chloe work to fill stove #2 with white maul.

We use trowels to level the maul to insure a flat future work space.

Sarah and Chloe strike a "shovel pose" at the white maul quarry.

Anyone who has dug here knows that white maul is hard! It also eats at your skin a bit and leaves your hands and feet peeling.

After the maul is excavated, it is filled into bags. Good work there!

The (HEAVY!) bags are lifted to a transport and taken to the adobe stove sites.

House With A View

Aahh....the view from our house is divine.