March 24, 2013

• Camden and Hope’s Perspective

  Today the kids wrote journals on their first week in Guatemala. I thought I’d share them. And I’m correcting all of the spelling errors to protect my struggling speller.

  Hope:
  It was crazy when we got on the plane. It was loud and we were up high. When we got there it was very busy and very different but it was fun!!! Our boss and some other missionaries came to help us with our bags. Our boss and the other missionaries took us to Wendy’s to eat. After we ate we went to our new house. At our new house you can’t flush the toilet paper. For lunch one of the missionary’s wives brought us food. For dinner three missionaries took us to a restaurant with big ice cream bowls. After that we went to sleep in our cozy beds.

  
  Hope at the airport
  
  Blake and Hope in front of our house

  Camden:
  My first week in Guatemala was very, very weird and different. I saw a girl with a pet goose?! I was hesitating to myself, did I really see a girl holding a goose? I felt culture shock. I was just mad, confused, or even thinking I’ve gone crazy. It’s the most weirdest feeling ever!!!. Everything looks the exact same. There is a pattern of red, yellow, faded white, blue and every color you can think of over and over and over. In fact it makes my head hurt. There is a volcano right out the window. It seems real but unreal. But if you’re looking up you can see more interesting things than you’ll ever see in the United States. Is that a good or bad thing? I don’t want to know. It’s the most interesting, weird, and most beautiful place I’ve ever seen.

  
  The kids in front of the pool in our condominium complex.
  
  Our street

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