Baked Goods and Children’s Generosity Can Warm Anyone’s Soul!

This should be one of the last posts of the pre-Easter posts! We still are out of internet, but hopefully the apartments will get it soon! (don’t forget to look at the other 2 if you are just checking now)

  

          The Thursday before Easter break was ended with sweat, sweets, and success as my 4th and 5th graders conducted a great bake sale to raise money for Books and Bare Feet. Books and Bare Feet is an ongoing fundraiser for Vientos de Esperanza, a local girl’s home. It was such an incredible blessing to be able to watch them work hard and become so excited about raising money for the girls at this home. From the planning to the baking and selling my students worked diligently together without complaining and we were able to raise 407,300 Guaranies (around $99)! The food was really yummy and delicious too celebrating a wide variety of cultures with spring rolls, empanadas, donuts, sushi, cake, brownies and lots of traditional paraguayan food.

Prayer Requests:

- As with the posts before, please pray for Paraguay right now and the spread of Dengue. This is a disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes (like Malaria), but has no preventative measure except to try not to get bit. Over 15,000 people have been officially infected and over 50 have already died this year. The school is taking every precaution possible with fumigations, daily empting of trash, etc, yet mosquitoes often have a mind of their own.

- Please pray for the SAT 10 tests that my students are taking this week! It is the standardized test that we give them at ACA. Especially pray for strength for them to focus, good recall of the information, and endurance through the week for all of us!

The Accumulated Firsts from before and during Easter Break!

- First time visiting Iguaçu Falls!

- First time going to Argentina (my passport even proves it, thankfully renewing my 90 days allowed by my Paraguayan visa!)

- First time traveling in an overnight bus
- First time being attacked, okay robbed, by a coatie (an animal similar to a raccoon that is found only in Argentina). It was slightly tramatic.

- First time taking a ferry through international waters of three different countries!

- First time camping out in Paraguay
- First and Second time standing on a long distance Paraguayan bus for 3 hours (both ways). Sardines in moving tin can.
- First time swimming in a Paraguayan river and waterfalls