Off to renew my Visa

After this week I am totally ready for a break! I walked into the bedroom of the youngest kids, who I feel are totally neglected, to see if they wanted to draw with me. When I walked in I almost threw up because three of them were laying on the floor sleeping and there was poop smeared all over the beds, the floor, and the walls. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in my life. Ruth, one of the younger girls sleeping in the room, woke up and her eyes were swollen shut. I assumed it was because she had touched the poop and then rubbed her eyes. I took her and bathed her and let her rest in the volunteer room while I got the other volunteers to check out the room. We all spent about 2 hours cleaning the beds, the floor and the walls. We decided that the best thing to do would be to paint the little kids room. So we talked to the teacher and skipped teaching the next day and went into the nearest town to buy paint brushes and rollers and we painted the entire room with some leftover white paint. We are going to try and pool together or get some donations to get some colored paint to help spruce it up a bit and paint some neat designs and let the kids do some hand prints as well. Also, today is kids day here which is basically like Christmas. So we had a huge BBQ, all the kids got a gift, we are having cake tonight, it has been quite a week! But tomorrow after class I am headed to La Ceiba to meet up with my brother in a hostel and we are traveling until next Sunday, about 10 days. We will hopefully be able to make it to El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize. To renew a visa you must either go to Belize or Costa Rica. Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have an agreement and won't renew visas. So we are off to Belize! I will try and update the blog with some interesting travel stories while I am away.