Esperanza 2016, Day 5: Thursday

It's Thursday today, and today we had a packed day. After we woke up and ate some breakfast we went straight to the work sight. We established a bucket line and continued to dig our trenches. We had lunch and like always it was AMAZING! Authentic Mexican food is nothing like what we have in the USA. After lunch we continued working and got pretty far. All we need to dig is a couple more trenches and then we will be able to pour the floors. Sadly we won't be here for that because tomorrow is our last work day. In the middle of the work day I (Daniel) was able to play with Gustavo in the kitchen that is smack dab in the middle of the work site the only part of the household that's not being remodeled. Gustavo is the grandson of the lady we're building the house for, he is ten years old and very chill.  It was Nathan, Gustavo and I, we blew up a few balloons and started to play soccer with them. We popped like four balloons until we were finally told to get back to work. After we finished for today we went to a house that we had worked on the past year. It was beautiful, with bright colors and an amazing view of a large portion of Tijuana. After that we left to go back to the posada. We took our quick one minute showers then headed to a place where migrants and deportees from the USA are aloud to stay for a week to four months depending on their situations. We had dinner there and met two brothers who came all the way from Haiti. They told us about their story of how they got to Tijuana, its was an amazing experience. Through tough emotions we understood their passion greatly. Their insight and motivation really struck some of our hearts.  We left to the supermarket to get ice cream and some goodies. And when we got back to the posada we got an amazing announcement. We get to go to the orphanage again on Saturday! Once we got that news we hung out and slowly trickled out of the main room we where in and went to bed. In all it was a ten out of ten day.

Corbin, Daniel, John Paul