Tuesday- trip to Pearl Lagoon

Outside of Pearl Lagoon

The Water Board is very serious about making a big splash with the Water System Celebration.  Several people were on the church grounds raking and cleaning when we arrived for breakfast.

 No telling how long they'd been working, but they had already collected 3 LARGE bags of trash that had been littering the grounds.   (It's too bad they didn't go to the far side of the church where there was a large quantity of broken glass.  I'm astonished with all the children playing around there, that someone hasn't been gashed, but as far as I know, it hasn't happened)    Breakfast was omelette, white cheese and yogurt.

We began class-- not to teach new concepts, but to help them organize for their future classes and to go over the children's materials we brought.  We packed up all our teaching supplies into the large red duffle bag and cleaned up our teaching mess for the Celebration.   We piled into a borrowed pick-up with Aaron driving and little Aaron in my lap.  With 5 1/2 folks in the cab and 4 in the back we headed out.  Lunch was at a restaurant on the lagoon- very nice location, interesting food.  I had chicken in Creole sauce

I have a "thing" for strange little cars.

We visited the filtration station at Pearl Lagoon, looked at their church and headed back.    Driving along the road, we saw a man with a "pet" on a leash.  To me it looked like a raccoon, but not the right coloring, another said it might be an anteater.  One of our guys declared it to be a coati.

Yobeth, the operator at Pearl Lagoon,  and her 10 yr old daughter hitched a ride back with us making 6 in the back and as many in the cab of the truck.  Aaron took a different way back to Kukra Hill, since having that many people in a vehicle is not strictly legal.  We made it back safely with no difficulties except for sunburn for those in the back.

We got back to the hotel in time for a WARM shower and change of clothes.  The Celebration will be in 2 parts-- first in the church with speeches and songs and handing certificates to the "teachers-in-training", the operators and our cook.