Day Number Two

7-13

Awakened at the crack of dawn by a rooster crowing about a yard from my head and music blaring. Did I mention it was only about 6:00?

Breakfast was Pineapple and tuna fish. Seth is posing cutting the pineapple. What a smile. :)

LOL... We had a children´s service abour nine and then Pastor Jairo preached a message. Spent the rest of the morning getting acclamated to Paantim and getting to know the kids. Just hanging out with them and each other as a group. We ate lunch of platanos and yucca and papachinos again. Then we were invited to go to the river to ride in a canoe. So we all started down, me sticking my soap and shampoo in my pocket just in case. lol. I luckily was wearing my rubber rainboots. It was a steep hike of about 20 minutes down, all downhill and almost all muddy. It was a hard hike but well worth it. About halfway down, the terrain changed to straight down. We were climbing with hands and feet to get there. It was so much fun. When we got htere, I immediatly changed and jumped in. The water was freezing but felt SOOO good. We had a blast at the river. It was so much fun. All of the kids were speaking in shuar and I couldn´t understand a word but we still had so much fun. I passed around the soap and shampoo. It was so funny because I passed it to about ten people. Then I helped a little girl wash her hair. They were used to just using soap. We had a good time. By the time we got back, Jonathan and the Shuar pastors had arrived. They had left Sucúa at 5 am and caught a bus for two and ahalf hours to Macuma, as far as the pavement would go. Then from there, they walked about 5 or 5 1/2 hours to Paantim. Now our team consisted of ME, Whitney, Brianna, Caleb, Seth, Ricky, Jonathan, Pastor Efren, and Pastor Jairo. Jonathan was so tired. We ate dinner of yucca, platano, papa china, and a sucker fish called Caracha. It was so good. Then we went to sleep about eight o´clock.