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Hi guys, Greytopher here with another blog explaining what I did for my first week of summer. PLEASE READ MY FIRST BLOG TO GET A GENERAL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW I STARTED THIS MISSION TRIP!!
THE LINK IS RIGHT HERE!
The Beginning
As some of you might of known, I went to Mexico the first week of my summer. This was not a vacation, nor was it anywhere near of it. We went down to Mexico to build houses for people who need them most in their lives. We built in Rosarito, Mexico, which was near Tijuana. We worked with an organization name Amor Ministries, and they provided the worksite,
We went down as a group of 50 with about 7 adults and 43 kids. We all live around San Francisco, so what we did is that at 6:00 in the morning, we all got on a bus and drove all the way down to San Diego. We stayed in a church there, that was called the La Jolla Presbyterian Church. They were such nice hosts, but we had to attend the service that morning and man, that guy gave the longest sermen in the world. We transitioned from the bus to 5 vans, so crossing the border would be much easier.
Anyways, we crossed over the border the next day at around 10:00 am, and it was SOO easy. I expected a full body search, but no. First 5 minutes we were over there all over the border, but the change from San Diego to Mexico was unbelieveable.
I've never really been in Mexico, but I have been to other Central American countries aswell. I was expecting the shacked houses, and closely nit neighborhoods, but what I was not expecting was how much trash there was. There were streets that were just filled with trash, and to even get rid of the trash resulted in people burning the trash to get rid of it. I was horrified by the area that we had to work with, and I was also anxious to get along with it.
The Work Site
There were two worksites, which we divided equally into two groups of 25. One group was named Purple and the other Green. Luckily for me, I was chosen on the work site Green.
We worked with a single mom named Maria (Or we sometimes called or Mary). She had four kids, Lupita, Moises, Jesus, and Kevin (their youngest). They all were under the age of 10, and there was this giant language barrier, since I'm not very good at speaking Spanish, but I'm better at listening and understanding it. The kids, my god, they were AWESOME! They skipped school to help build their home. I had no idea how much it ment to them to help build their own home, and how much work they put into it. Great job, from all of them!
The work site was a very tightly packed area. First to start off our wonderful mornings, there was a stump sitting in the middle of our foundation... that set us back around 2 hours. When we got the stump out, we could finally work, but then, we had dogs on our foundation too. If you didn't know, most dogs in Mexico, or the stays in Mexico, are very gross and dirty, packed with diseases that could harm you (obviously). It was really hard to NOT touch the dogs considering I'm just a big dog person, and I just wanted to cuddle with them every which way.
Building the house took 4 days to make, and we made what we called a "double house". This means, that it has four rooms and four windows with two exterior doors. I will post pictures of what the houses looked like, but for now my description is stuck with that. Building the house was actually fun, but handing over the keys to the owner was even better. I found this experience to be probably the best experience I have ever done.
Reflection
Overall, I'd have to say the experience, now that I look back on it, was breathtaking. We built two double housed homes for two families over the course of 4 days, and man, was that hard work. I am definitely doing this next year when I get the oppritunitie, and I hope you all enjoyed this blog.
How you could get involved
If you ever want to participate in something like this, this is what I would recommend doing
1. Contact your local church/non-profit organization and see if they have this type of work.
2. If they do have it, then great! Sign up for next years even!
3. If they don't have it, then propose the idea using the following:
Search up Amor Ministries and learn about how you can go down to Mexico and build houses. Propose the idea to the organization of your choice and plan a trip for next year.
I hope you all loved this blog! If you liked it, please don't be afraid to diamond/favorite/subscribe!
Thank you for reading!
Projects by rspgreytopher are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Please ask us for approval before reposting our projects anywhere else on the web, thank you.
~ rspminecraft & Greytopher (rspgreytopher)
THE LINK IS RIGHT HERE!
The Beginning
As some of you might of known, I went to Mexico the first week of my summer. This was not a vacation, nor was it anywhere near of it. We went down to Mexico to build houses for people who need them most in their lives. We built in Rosarito, Mexico, which was near Tijuana. We worked with an organization name Amor Ministries, and they provided the worksite,
We went down as a group of 50 with about 7 adults and 43 kids. We all live around San Francisco, so what we did is that at 6:00 in the morning, we all got on a bus and drove all the way down to San Diego. We stayed in a church there, that was called the La Jolla Presbyterian Church. They were such nice hosts, but we had to attend the service that morning and man, that guy gave the longest sermen in the world. We transitioned from the bus to 5 vans, so crossing the border would be much easier.
Anyways, we crossed over the border the next day at around 10:00 am, and it was SOO easy. I expected a full body search, but no. First 5 minutes we were over there all over the border, but the change from San Diego to Mexico was unbelieveable.
I've never really been in Mexico, but I have been to other Central American countries aswell. I was expecting the shacked houses, and closely nit neighborhoods, but what I was not expecting was how much trash there was. There were streets that were just filled with trash, and to even get rid of the trash resulted in people burning the trash to get rid of it. I was horrified by the area that we had to work with, and I was also anxious to get along with it.
The Work Site
There were two worksites, which we divided equally into two groups of 25. One group was named Purple and the other Green. Luckily for me, I was chosen on the work site Green.
We worked with a single mom named Maria (Or we sometimes called or Mary). She had four kids, Lupita, Moises, Jesus, and Kevin (their youngest). They all were under the age of 10, and there was this giant language barrier, since I'm not very good at speaking Spanish, but I'm better at listening and understanding it. The kids, my god, they were AWESOME! They skipped school to help build their home. I had no idea how much it ment to them to help build their own home, and how much work they put into it. Great job, from all of them!
The work site was a very tightly packed area. First to start off our wonderful mornings, there was a stump sitting in the middle of our foundation... that set us back around 2 hours. When we got the stump out, we could finally work, but then, we had dogs on our foundation too. If you didn't know, most dogs in Mexico, or the stays in Mexico, are very gross and dirty, packed with diseases that could harm you (obviously). It was really hard to NOT touch the dogs considering I'm just a big dog person, and I just wanted to cuddle with them every which way.
Building the house took 4 days to make, and we made what we called a "double house". This means, that it has four rooms and four windows with two exterior doors. I will post pictures of what the houses looked like, but for now my description is stuck with that. Building the house was actually fun, but handing over the keys to the owner was even better. I found this experience to be probably the best experience I have ever done.
Reflection
Overall, I'd have to say the experience, now that I look back on it, was breathtaking. We built two double housed homes for two families over the course of 4 days, and man, was that hard work. I am definitely doing this next year when I get the oppritunitie, and I hope you all enjoyed this blog.
How you could get involved
If you ever want to participate in something like this, this is what I would recommend doing
1. Contact your local church/non-profit organization and see if they have this type of work.
2. If they do have it, then great! Sign up for next years even!
3. If they don't have it, then propose the idea using the following:
Search up Amor Ministries and learn about how you can go down to Mexico and build houses. Propose the idea to the organization of your choice and plan a trip for next year.
I hope you all loved this blog! If you liked it, please don't be afraid to diamond/favorite/subscribe!
Thank you for reading!
Projects by rspgreytopher are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Please ask us for approval before reposting our projects anywhere else on the web, thank you.
~ rspminecraft & Greytopher (rspgreytopher)
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