More from Apoyo

The wifi is very slow and we have no service here. I woke up early and thought I'd take advantage of the wifi with no one else to compete with in order to share photos at home. The kids have all day to write their blogs so hopefully we will be able to post before bed.

Yesterday we finished at the job site (working on a learning center) and we can say that we successfully finished a concrete floor! I'm very proud of these kids because they hustled the entire time and did not complain at all during the four days of work!!!

After completing our time at the job site we visited Amped for Education's first Learning Center in Pantanal. This is a very rural community and it was an eye opening experience for us all. The houses are more shacks and the people are very poor. The people were very welcoming and glad to see Amped volunteers in the neighborhood (Jeff and Sarah are rock stars down here!).

We've now come to lodge at Apoyo Lagoon ( a collapsed volcano that has salty/fresh water in the basin) and it's paradise! Check out the pictures on PhotoCircle to get a good look!

Here are some from the job site, Pantanal learning center, and Apoyo:

The blue building is the elementary school. 

A local home

This is the learning center that Amped built in 2012. 

Apoyo at 6am. I don't have to compete with the kids for wifi at this time. 😉

Stay dogs are everywhere here but these are in better shape than the city ones. Here in Apoyo they must get fed by tourists a lot. This one greeted me at the dog and has joined me for coffee while the kids sleep!