Park Visiting, Warehouse Cleaning, and MORE! :)

Yesterday, we had the privilege of walking to the park. It's about a 1/2 mile or so from where we are staying. It's beautiful! Looks just like any US park. It has a walkway, ping pong tables, basketball courts, picnic areas, and a dance studio. Quite impressive. Below you see the playground equipment:
This is a view of the ping-pong tables:

And here is a shot of the walkway with some of the picnic areas. The walkway actually has golden numbers stating the distance traveled. The whole track is like 500Meters.

Something else that happened yesterday...I made my first purchase at the colmado (little store).

I went to the colmado to get some butter. I explain to him that I want a little. So he goes to get a butter container from the fridge or something. He then grabs a little baggie, scoops the butter from the container with a spoon, into the baggie, then hands it to me. Without weighing it or anything, he just charged me a certain amount. It was a funny experience. Yes, it is safe to eat! We double-checked before we tried it out.

Also yesterday, I killed my first flying cock-roach. I feel that this is important to mention because it is the first - probably of many. The bugs haven't been to bad yet for me...Though I have been bitten a few times by bugs we refer to as no-see-ums (because you never see them, but they bite you...and Jimmie, this is different than the ones I don't see but get bit by in the states. ;))

Today, Amanda and I worked on cleaning and organizing the GO Ministries warehouse. Walking into this project was definitely overwhelming. So many donations have come in over the last months and have not been able to get properly put away. Below are some shots taken 2 hours into the re-organizing process...

Tuesday we will hopefully be able to finish organizing in there - or at least get the shelving back up and stuff over there picked up. I'd like to point out, that the bins in the middle picture are all shoes. We sorted through all of them dividing them into bins labeled for women's shoes, women's sneakers, men's shoes, men's sneakers, kids shoes, etc...It's awesome how many pairs of shoes people have been able to send to GO.

A few of my thoughts...
It's been so so nice to get here before teams arrive. Amanda and I both are taking in so much information. We are asking all kinds of questions that at some point this summer, we will probably be asked by team members. I'd like to ask that you pray that we (and the other interns soon arriving - there are 11 total summer staff/interns this year) will be able to remember all/most of the things we are learning...specifically the people and names of Dominican/Haitian ministry partners. I have met so many new people. One of them asked me today if I remembered him...I felt terrible that I couldn't (though I did remember his name once he reminded me of where we met).