Tuesday, 8:40 pm
So far Guatemala has been awesome. The view from the balcony upstairs is beautiful, you can see the mountains, trees, a volcano, multiple  airplanes throughout the day, and at night so many lights up on the hills, it is just amazing! For our afternoon work i have been on a painting crew for the past 2 days and it has been very fun. We have painted several walls- two different shades of yellow. Yesterday once we were done painting we were allowed to play with the kids for about an hour. We played duck-duck grey duck and some other games. A little girl who was playing chalk with me kept drawing what i was drawing and then she drew a person with glasses and we assumed it was me, since i was wearing glasses too, that was also super cute! They taught us a song about a frog and then they wanted us to present it to them,we messed up several times, but it was so fun! Even though it is hard to communicate with the kids, you can tell that they are having so much fun. VBS has been so cool so far, the kids all are so excited that we are there, i've gotten several hugs from kids I hadn't even talked to yet. It is so cool trying to communicate with the kids and I think its really fun that i can use some of my spanish that i learned in my spanish classes. People here are so nice and polite! Today as i was helping lead crafts in one of the classrooms the kids got up and started writing english words on the white board to show me how much they knew, it was so cute! Also when asking for crayons the kids would say the colors in english. So far here in Guatemala i have realized that we truly have so much to be thankful for back at home, and i am excited to see what else God has planned for us this week!      -Cori K.