Second day of work on the houses... The first day kicked all of our asses. My muscles are still very sore, but I bet I will have many more after this experience is over.
So far everything is great.
Made a dog friend today... It was totally a Dances With Wolves kind of situation. Except this was a dog and not a wolf and he was much smaller. I named him Pepito or *No Socks* since in the movie the wolf was called *Two Socks* get it??? ha ha. Anyway the stray dog situation here really saddens me. I´m starting to think I would like to work for an animal rights organization. There really needs to be an effort made to spay and neuter here and I´m sure in many other Latin American countries. I have probably seen atleast 75 - 100 stray dogs on the streets so far on this trip so I`m sure there are hundreds of thousands more throughout the country. It deeply saddens me. They are all dirty and starving, living in filth, with no care available and no one who is even willing to care for them. Most probably have rabies or worse and I am not supposed to touch them so I usually do not. But I feed Pepito my sandwitch at lunch everyday well... he wont take it from me so I have to throw it to him bc he is afraid of us *gringos* ha ha. Maybe he will come closer by the end of the 2 weeks. I`m going to try to find some more food for him in the city something with more protein. I just feel so terrible for him and all the other dogs here. Hardly anyone actually keeps an animal as a pet here it`s very sad how unloved they are.
It makes me miss my dogs terribly... they are really living the good life compared to this fate of dogs here in Guate.
We are eating Guatemalan fast food tonite for dinner I am excited... It is called POLLO CAMPERO. its like Latin American KFC.
Well I miss everyone and hope everything is going well for you all back in the states.
Love,
Kelly
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