Today we had to be at school at 9 again. I was on my own for the bus this morning. I got down to the street a little after 8:30, where I waited for the bus for a good while. It finally came, and I got on, but was kicked off two block later because I didn’t have enough coins. So I walked for a while until I found a store where I bought some water so that I could get the change. Then I waited for another good 10 minutes until the next bus came. I got on with no problem, but passed my stop by a couple blocks. I showed up at the Casa after a 50 minute bus experience, 20 minutes late. Nice.
We went to a place called Adulam. It was so awesome. It is this very poor community of about 30 families that all live together. We split up into groups, and my group went to the green house they were construction. There was a metal frame up, and we wrapped all of the poles in plastic so they would not rust. I met Arial and his friend, whose name I forgot. After we were done wrapping everything in plastic, I started bringing buckets of dirt from where another group was working. We started making a path in the green house out of dirt. We stopped for lunch and they served us some burgers. When we were done we played some soccer. It was pretty funny watching some of the kids in our group try to play. I didn’t know it was possible to be as unathletic as some of my peers are. But we had fun and I broke out my mean goalie skills. After the game we finished our work, and they made me a red and yellow leather bracelet. It says, “Antonio.” My new friend Arial asked if we could trade hats. So I gave him my red smith (also my favorite) hat. He was very pumped, and gave me his adidas Chile hat. There was a little band they had there, and they played some church songs before we left. And the bracelet guy played his guitar for four of the little kids to dance. That was a cool way to end that experience.
That night we all met at the Casa and walk to the same place we were the night before. Our RA, and one of my best friends, had been sick when we left, so he took a later flight. He got here before we left for the night, so I was super excited to spend the night with him. We stopped at a restaurant where we hung out for a little, and then went to the soul café. I don’t know what we did for so long but we ended up heading home at around 4:30 and we didn’t even go to a club. We pretty much just hung out in the soul café and outside on the street.
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