The day started with the now morning requirement of seven AM assembly. We joined in a large circle with most of the children as roll was called. An inspirational story was read by the matron in charge as the remaining children filtered in. The story involved "tres hombres de negocios" (business men) and the team listened with all their might and managed to pick up about every third Spanish word. Returning to the guest house, we compared notes and found that we had nine different versions of the story. Our Spanish is improving but at a slow pace.
This was the day to visit the technical school at Ameriteca. The drive passed along a true super highway which is a big contrast with what I experiemced five years ago. We turned off of the superhighway a few kilometers before our destination and found the familiar rutted gravel road. The technical school campus appeared shortly and we unfolded ourselves fom the van to see an impressive completed set of buildings including the chappel which now boasts a mural which was just completed in 2010.
Our guide, Minor, was a former El Hogar student who spoke with an impressive command of English, thus releiving us from the use of our primitive Spanish. The technical shool director, Lazaro (sp?) a founder of El Hogar provided interesting accounts of the early daysat the school. He sais that he never dreamed that it would grow to be what it is today.
Our return to El Hogar put us back in work mode as we had to move the old kitchen to the nrw dining hall/kitchen. We almost completed that task, with the exception of a large gas oven which we moved out of the old building and into the new building, but not into the new kitchen. It is too large for the doorway and will await the installers which will come tomorrow.
Will (Guillermo)
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