Love in the shadows.: A Belizean Summer||2.0||The Adventure Begins

I have safely arrived in Belize! I got in yesterday at 1:15ish (Belize is two hours behind us so it was like 3:15 at home). Some of the other interns and a staff member were there to pick me up and take me to the D*Victoria Hotel in Orange Walk Town, where I'll be staying for the next couple days. The afternoon was spent in some laid-back training/get-to-know-you games, followed by a picture scavenger hunt through the town. (Super fun!!) After that we met for supper(burritos), provided by one of the assistant leader's mom. Seriously. The food down here is too good to put into words. :) After supper, we walked the short distance to the ice cream shop, where Jason(Founder and CEO of Thirst) kindly treated us all! It was a very tiring, but very awesome first day!

Then today we met with several of the host pastors in the morning. It got a little long because it was mostly in Spanish but I honestly enjoyed it for the most part because I felt like I was brushing up on my Spanish! I talked to this one pastor who knew very little English but with his broken English and my broken Spanish I learned that he moved here from Guatemala about 4 years ago with his family. He has 4 boys, aging from 22 to 14 and lives here in Orange Walk. I am so glad I took that Spanish 1 class at Faith with Mr. Lapp!!!! Anyhow. After the meeting, we ate lunch with the pastors and then split into small groups and traveled to some of the different towns we'll be serving in this summer. My group went to Concepcion to meet with Pastor Eduardo about some things (I won't be traveling there but one of the other interns will be!) and then traveled up to Corozal. Omystars. Corozal is BEAUTIFUL!!!!! You seriously come around the bend and BOOM! ocean!!! I will be staying with a group there for a week and let me tell you, I can't wait!! It is seriously so pretty up there. Fun Fact: Corozal is in Northern Belize, just 30 minutes from the Mexico border. We ate supper at this pretty restaurant called Tony's. It was awesome because we ate on this pier-type thing out over the water! Anyhow. Then we came back and just kind of hung out and did whatever!

Thanks so much for everyone's prayers!! It means a lot to me to know that so many people care about me and the other staff members here!!