A long ride in the back of a dump truck

We had a midterm field trip for our English classes. About 95 of our students showed up for the activity.
We all piled into two dump trucks. This is the typical transportation in the country for large groups of people.
On the way out I rode in the back of the larger dump truck. Because I was in the middle of the truck I was not able to steady myself by holding on to the side. Whenever the truck would speed up, slow down or turn the whole wave of people would almost push you over. It took a lot of effort just to stay upright. After the one-hour trip I was exhausted.
Just before we reached our destination our dump truck broke down. One of the tires went flat. All of the tires were in incredibly poor condition. Some of the tire sizes did not even match.
Once we arrived at the beach we split up into class groups for English-speaking activities. The classes then put on skits and demonstrations of some of their skills. We also had a lunch of temorize food which meant it was all vegetables
I got to give some closing remarks.
Afterwards the class spent about 10 minutes picking up our litter and the litter of others that was in the area.
This is the class picture. A lot of the people at the rear of the picture didn't show well. In total there were 95 people.
This place was on a beautiful beach.
Afterwards we all loaded back into our trucks and went home. I luckily was able to ride in the cab of one of the trucks this time.

One of our English students and her family have been coming to church for the past few weeks. It's been a good and difficult experience in that it's very hard to communicate with her because she just has limited English. Fortunately today are one member that speaks tetun well was there and was able to teach her. During the lesson investigators said that her and her children would like to be baptized. If all goes well she would be the first baptism in this country.




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