Wow can't believe I've already lived in Laluni longer than I lived in Mainstay! It's been a crazy couple months with lots of learning curves and challenges but also lots of laughs! I am getting used to not having electricity or running water and it is becoming second nature to cook our meals by kerosene lamp light. It is rainy season so it's been raining nonstop, which is actually really nice because it fills all of our rain barrels and we have plenty of water! It's also bringing out tons of animals! I've seen two anacondas, saw jaguar tracks where it had eaten three sheep, tons of huge spiders, baboons and freakin bats galore! I hate bats. Jungle livin!
This is like my best friend in Laluni, Ryan, a couple days a week I go on a walk with him and another girl and we play soccer, ride bikes and he asks me lots of questions! "Miss why can't you drink our water, you have special American water??"
This was one of the snakes I saw! It's stomach burst open cuz it ate a bag of live chickens!
I have been spending most of my time in the library, painting it, organizing it and labeling it so the kids can use it! It's been a lot of work but really fun!
I painted the bookcases pink, walls blue and floor grey!
Another walk with Ryan and Amesha!
Two first graders watching me paint!
6th Grade boys helping me wash the walls before painting the final wall blue!
Laluni library is open for reading!
The past volunteer who lived in Laluni, Eben, had a dog, who has now adopted me! I give him the leftover jelly in my coconuts. #caribbeandog
I was invited to a BBQ one day and these are two students who went to pick up the chickens for dinner!
Priya, the 6th grade teacher at my school, and Cindy, the 4th grade teacher and my counterpart with the PC!
Since the library has opened, I made a log where I write down the student's name, grade and what book they borrowed and they can borrow it for a day. The kids were so excited and they ask me every day, so I can borrow another one right? And I can do it again tomorrow? They are so confused but so excited! A lot of them can't read but they are just excited to look at the pictures. It's really sweet. I also had to teach a library intro class, on how to treat the books, how to put them on the shelves, and where to put them back. It's pretty crazy to think about these kids not growing up going to the library every week like I did with my mom and knowing how it works. But it also feels awesome to be the one introducing it to them and sharing my love of reading with them!
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin
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