The volunteers have already been here a week. When they arrived, they received a proper welcome--a scorpion infestation. While we were trying to kill the scorpions, one had babies all over everything, including inside Adam's backpack. It was a very surreal nightmare. I generally am not afraid of bugs, but this was terrifying. We ended up having to stay at a hotel for the night and to hire someone to kill the rest of the scorpions. In total we had 5 grown scorpions and about 40 babies.
All our volunteers are girls this year so we have Adam out numbered. The picture below is of our team (minus Adam since he is taking the picture) and our cook Mama Kay. She is a great cook and really looks out for us. At dinner each night, we ask her questions for hours. She has great advice about projects, tourism, and everyday life in Belize.
We have been very busy the last few days. We have been teaching in an elementary school, painting a school, mentoring and doing conflict resolution with high school students, shadowing a school counselor, and working to update the countries refugee records. My favorite project so far has been working in a retirement home. Both my grandpas have passed away in the last two months. My Grandpa Hammond passed away last week and my Grandpa Breedlove passed away in February. I really enjoyed talking with the elderly and spending time with them since I can't spend more time with my grandpas.
Elder Carmack, se acuerda de que un escorpión le picó al Elder Bradshaw cuando estaba con Elder Godfrey en... no me acuerdo donde estaban.,. cerca de Veracruz. El sobrevivió sin problema.
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I do remember that. Survival is what one thinks about when you see 100 scorpions explode out of an egg sac haha.
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