We are now having our second day of camp and all is running smoothly. Janeth has a crew of about 5 Nicaraguan women chopping and slicing all day long in the kitchen. We are all eating well.

The 60 campers that we are hosting are having a ball. What our students didn’t like was the fact that one girls’ cabin was up at 3:30 am, ready to take on the day and the other cabin of “late sleepers” were up at 4:30 am. Hopefully they will sleep a little later tomorrow morning. Most Nicaraguans get up with the sun and go to bed with the sun since it saves on electricity. I say that the sun doesn’t come up at 3:30 am except in the arctic. The students are still doing a wonderful job, even with the early start. Most of the students walk to and fro with a child clinging on to each arm.

Our daily schedule is as follows…

7:30 Breakfast
8:00 Chapel and morning meeting
8:30 Brush teeth and the first activity period begins
8:30-11:45 Activities (like Bible stories, Arts & Crafts, Field Sports, Science and English)
11:45 - 12:15 Group Swimming
12:30 Lunch
1:15 - 3:45 - Activities
3:45 - 4:30 - Group Swimming
5:00 - Dinner
6:00- After dinner meeting and a movie (our students have some time off during the movie)
8:00- Wash up for bed
8:45 - Lights out and quiet

We did have a couple of slight sunburns today since our kids were in the sun all day long. We have found that shoulders get burned more easily after our students have been giving shoulder rides to the children in the water and the abrasiveness of the sand takes off the sunscreen. We will only be having a 1/2 day of camp as the children will go home Sunday afternoon. The students look tired but they are loving every minute of it.

Thanks for your prayers. Until the next update.

Bethany for the group!