June 30- Day 5

Hola amigos! Mims here. Today was a very fun and packed day. This morning we all woke up and ate breakfast with our families. Already we are all becoming closer to our families and everyone's Spanish has improved. At 8:30 we all made our way over to the homebase, El Tambo, and prepared to depart to Rumira.
Rumira is a local school that many of the kids in town attend. For our community development project, we are working on rebuilding their playground. This entailed picking up the trash, removing the rocks, and sanding the old slide. It doesn't sound like a lot, but let me tell you every time you picked up a rock or a piece of trash, more would force their way up to the surface and magically appear. After working for two and a half hours, the school graciously offered us some delicious food, and we got to go see the classes and talk to the kids.

The group at Rumira.

We all went home for lunch and then returned to El Tambo, so we could all walk over to El Telecentro together. In El Telecentro we set up for the community workshops, which include arts and crafts, sports, games, and La Marinera. La Marinera is a Peruvian dance, at which Senora Viacava excels. She is the reigning world champion!! The sports group and the games group both had a lot of fun with their kids, who really liked to roll on the ground. I worked in the arts and crafts group, which was supposed to be relaxing, but turned into absolute madness when appx. 50 kids showed up out of the blue. We were caught completely off guard, but managed to finish without any meltdowns.

Overall it was a great day!
-Mims