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From: Jane boyce <janeboyce@live.com>
Date: January 25, 2018 at 10:46:41 PM AST
To: Jane boyce <janeboyce@live.com>
Subject: Update 5
Elsi and I came up with a Tourist Brochure ad for our experience last night: After a scenic van tour of the southern Puerto Rico coast & Hurricane Maria devastation, experience an authentic Puerto Rican birthday party which includes a home cooked turkey dinner. And we even throw in an unique and added bonus—a church choir practice!! All for the low, low price of $0!!!
Sound too good to be true?? Nope, we did it!!
Today we loaded the church van with cleaning supplies, hose, water, sandwiches, 4 church ladies, us & Johanna drove us to the home we'd lined up to work in. Unfortunately, mostly for them, they had no water. Yesterday, yes and they didn't know when they'd have it again. So off we went to another home...an elderly lady again. Elsi & I volunteered to clean the kitchen, the boys outside, and the other ladies took the bathroom & bedroom. Let's just say she was a big time saver and we thought most of the mess was probably pre-Maria. After we dragged out about 10 huge garbage bags, did a bit of cement work on her kitchen counter, built a make-shift shelf for food that was in boxes on the floor, used bottles of cleaning supplies....the place looked & smelled much better! We got done before 2, so we showered, rested a bit and then headed to an area we'd not been in and stopped at a restaurant on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Came home to play a few hands of Euchre. When Alice got here, she was happy to tell us all about her science project where she took water samples to test for E. coli in her home tap water & the river nearby where many people get their water. Lucky for us, her tap water is fine. Unlucky for many others, that river water if not. What a timely & important science project! We gave her an A+.
