A Good Day

Today was a good day. The sort you want to write home about, I guess. It rained hard during the night, more even than usual, but eventually turned into a beautiful sunny day.

After the 9am morning service we went to a nearby “beach” for a parish picnic. I spent most of the time playing with the kids in the Sea and then eating. I’m just slightly pink now – never thought about the sun. I have used sun block only about twice since arriving here.

At 12:30 I had to drive people home so that at 1pm I could pick up members of the softball team for our first real games against two out-of-town "teams". When I got to our meeting place (be there at one for sure!) there was only one boy. Amazingly, by 1:20 we had nine and almost all of them our better players! We arrived at the designated football field about 20 minutes late to find no one there! The home team from Eldridgeville had evidently expected us on Saturday and the team from San Pedro Colombia broke down on the way, we think. Anyway, the field was so wet we couldn’t possibly have played. On the way home we decided, as the only team to arrive, we must have won our first tournament on a forfeit.

It may be our last tournament, too, because we aren’t quite sure how we will continue to operate during the school year. Most, perhaps all, of these kids have never seen a real baseball game so I think we’ll try hard to make it happen. Something else they haven’t seen is the team t-shirts we had made for them. That’s a secret until we actually get to play.

Tomorrow will be another big day as all the schools open, including St. Joseph’s Anglican Preschool. Two brand new Anglican schools will also be opening tomorrow, Holy Cross School on Ambergris Caye and the Diocesan Preschool in Belize City.