GUATEMALA!

WE'RE HERE!!! The flight was completely bearable and almost entertaining. I was seated on the very last row in front of the bathroom next to two native Guatemalans. The man directly next to me was probably about 5 foot even and he talked the entire 3 hours of the flight. The woman next to him very patiently listened to his stories about farming and his various jobs in Guatemala. As we flew over Guatemala City I very much wanted to look out the window and see the beautiful landscape we were flying over, but little mister five foot nothing decided that he needed to see, even though he lives in this environment daily. He even went as far as pushing himself up on his elbows to get a better view. I wasn't really even frustrated with him because it was just a little comical after sitting next to him for 3 hours listening to his very active and expressive stories.

Anywho, now we're in Guatemala City hanging out at the Buckner office getting to know the people here and taking pictures of the beautiful surroundings. I love it. I didn't really think I wouldn't, but I love it so much already. My roommates are Kaitlyn, Alayna, and Patience. Our luggage takes up the majority of the extra space in the room, but our luggage has become part of who we are, so it doesn't even bother us anymore. The Buckner office is an incredible facility and we are very privileged to get to stay here. The girls are in the two bedrooms and Jared, our only boy, is staying in the classroom. We're all just waiting to unload a little bit of humanitarian aid so that we aren't carrying around 2 50 pound bags each. We got to the airport this morning just praying that our bags would be under 50 pounds because it's not just that if it was over the weightlimit we would pay a fee, it was under 50 pounds or no go. My bags were 50.5 pounds each, don't worry, they let them all on. Erin, our leader, had a bag that was over 60 pounds so we had to rearrange her stuff to get it all here and WE DID!! All luggage is here and accounted for.

Anyway, this post really had no point except to say we're here, but keep your prayers up! Tomorrow we're going to be touring the Buckner facilities and the Park Cities group will be getting here. We aren't going to work with them until Sunday I don't think, but we'll be with them soon.