Today we woke up and went off to breakfast before we heading off to our last construction sites for the week. We were split between the two construction sites that we were at the first day of construction work! Our group was tying wires, pouring cement, and moving rocks/gravel. We did not spend too much […]
We started the day early at 4:30AM with a hike up the mountain to watch the sunrise with an elevation change of 1,000′. It was about a mile and a half up through the forest to the look point. We saw coffee beans growing in the wild all throughout our hike which was something we […]
Today started out getting up to head to breakfast, then going to our construction sites! We split up, one half of our group helping at a house close to the Mission in San Lucas, then the other group went back to a house we worked at yesterday in a neighboring village. We were moving stones, […]
This morning we woke up at a ripe 7 am to head over the the bibliotheca to set up dishes for breakfast. We ate and cleaned up, and then we headed over to our first service construction site. We split into two groups, but both groups were setting up foundations for a house for the […]
Today started off with a delicious breakfast to fuel us up for a long day of education. Our first visit was to a local Montessori school where we learned about the education they provide to 4-12 year olds. While we were learning about the school, we even got to see a typical school day in […]
We spent our first day in Guatemala exploring the towns around San Lucas and learning about the culture. We went to mass this morning; mass was in Spanish and the church was overflowing with people. After church, we had breakfast and headed to the boat. We visited Santiago first. In Santiago, we rode on a […]
Out morning started at 1:45am at Gannon University to then drive to the Cleveland Airport with the Merida, Mexico ABST. After a long wait to check in and go through security, our flight was delayed an hour after we boarded because the plane needed to be De-Iced just before takeoff from the snow that fell […]
Welcome back to our Guatemala adventure! Today is day 6 of our ABST to San Lucas. We started off our morning at 8am eating breakfast in the biblioteca. Afterwards, we traveled to our project site located in Pampojila. During our time, we carried gravel and cement mix up a hill to the house being built. […]
Today was our second day at our work sites and our 5th day here in San Lucas. We had the opportunity to celebrate Ash Wednesday after breakfast and before going to our worksites for the morning. Our group split into three seperate groups one group who worked at a house building windows and sealing block […]
Today on March 1st, 2022 our group split into two separate service groups and headed to different work sites. One location was in the process of building a house. The workers there had three people working on mixing and laying down cement for the walls and outer parts of the house. The rest of the […]
