Trabajando (Working)

Wednesday June 15, 2011

Well I am exhausted. I don’t know if I’m just having trouble adjusting to the time change or whatever or if it’s just because we’re working so hard everyday, but man I am beat!

The past three days we have been hard core cleaning. We just had a camp leave and so we’re doing intense summer cleaning. There are three sets of rooms, a girls dorm with eight rooms, a boys dorm with 8 rooms and el cortijo which is a set of 8 rooms for anyone. There are at least 5 five beds in each room, giving us a total of around 120 beds.

We had to go through every room an strip the mattress covers off each bed and pillow cases off each pillow. It wouldn’t be too terrible except you have to take every mattress off the bed because the mattress covers are like pillow cases in that that they cover the whole mattress, top and bottom and are zipped close. So it’s not as simple as just stripping the sheets.

Then we had to wash everything, and with only one washer and no dryer, we are still washing, three days later. But as they are getting cleaned then we put them back on the mattresses.

(el cortijo)

We had to sweep and mop out all the rooms and clean all the bathrooms, which are toilets, sinks, mirrors, counters, showers, sweep and mop and replace toilet paper and paper towels.

(Anna working hard)

Then we had to clean the dining hall, and conference hall and water all the plants. Each one of us girls picked one and I ended up with the dining hall. I had to wipe down all 14 tables and then stack the chairs on top. Then I had to sweep the whole hall and mop it. It took a good two hours. And through all of this we’re STILL doing laundry! I never want to see another mattress cover as long as I live!

So it’s been a very busy several days, but tomorrow we’re going to do some sight seeing in a town called Córdoba, so that should be a fun day. And then Friday we have a new camp coming and we’ll be working in the kitchen again! Life is never dull here that’s for sure! I can’t wait to see how God will continue to use this camp to reach people as the summer goes on.