We went around calling people

3rd week "helpful fundraisers"
Every Monday, we have a meeting about our agenda for the oncoming week’s activities. Humana always helps to give us so many ideas for our project. But we were in a difficult economic situation this time. Money, Money, Money!!! We always need money for advancing all actions. Our English and Yoga classes bring us a good amount of money to buy materials like cement, wires, seedlings, paint stuff, and so on. We also managed to take pictures and made videos to help us ask
for donations. Pictures and movies about their real life condition and our activities are good contents to quickly capture people's
understanding and sympathy. Our community church also needs money. They have their services three times a week and they ask for a
contribution. We've been attending their services as much as possible.
I suppose it to be important to get to know their style, culture, and beliefs. I guess it would help us to be closer to them. We often have conversations with the pastor and his wife to exchange some ideas about planning events for our community in order to gather more people to the church. We already know some points about how to create money from our fundraising trips. I think that sense is quite useful.

4th week "energetic aliens "
We've been keeping in touch with all families and taking some concrete actions like planting baby trees of Guava, Caju and Mango. Some places were so hard to dig, however, this activity made not only our
families happy, but us as well! They looked happy after planting them. Since then, they give us their natural smiles more and more as if we're one of their family members.

They have 3 schools and we helped to clean up the nearest school, and also helped to work a big common action to clean the local water hole ("limpa no tanqui") this week. Our area leader requested us to ask as
many people as possible to clean up the water tank. We went around calling people, "Todos familias, vamos tirar barro no tanque por favor!!". This was the call to bring them to prepare their water tank
(they call it " tanqui" – it`s like a dry swamp) for the forthcoming rains. We gathered many people and together we repeatedly transferred buckets with heavy dirt on our heads from inside the tank to outside. We had been cleaning up there for 3 days completely just a few days later, it rained a lot 2 nights in a row!! We got a plenty of water in the tank. What a nice timing it was! That was awesome! After the action, many people started to greet us from their sides with a more friendly voice. I felt good that the community started to accept us! We all started teaching our classes. I have an art class once a week, Jennifer has English classes in not only our project area but 2 more places, and John has some Yoga and some guitar classes. We don't have trouble to gather people, because we stand out easily form their eye sight. I found that our existences have some advantage to involve people to good activities. I think our leader really knows our specialty.