Last Saturday, after we finished working at the medical clinic, we were hot and tired and Roger and Rhonda treated us to pizza at a local pizza place in Jinotepe. Over some pretty great pizza (or it seemed to be great at that moment), we were asked if we were up to helping them for about "15 minutes" to assemble school bags they were going to distribute this week among the 5 schools in the same rural area in which the clinic is held.
These bags were color coded - the blue bags held 2 small notebooks, a pencil, a pencil top eraser and a pencil sharpener...these were for the younger children. The yellow bags held 2 large notebooks - one regular ruled and one quad ruled, a pencil, 3 pens (black, red & blue), a larger eraser, and a pencil sharpener...the yellow bags will go to the older children.
We had quite an assembly line going with Susanna and Rhonda stuffing notebooks, Jim and I did the other items and Roger tied them and sorted them in to the appropriate boxes. We had a lot of fun and some great fellowship during this time...but it definitely took longer than 15 minutes... we ended up assembling 275 bags. All in all, we had a very productive day and even though Jim, Susanna and I were tired and had an hour's drive still ahead of us, we wouldn't have missed out on that opportunity to help.
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