Day 14: July 4, 2008

Happy 4th of July!  I didn't even realize that it was the 4th until about halfway through the day today!  We started out with a big group going to the school where we are hosting our Canon service project (we got a bunch of cameras from canon to bring and our working on a service project where we're giving the cameras to some kids- ages 12 - 16 or something- and we're sort of teaching them how to use them.  So we got to the school and each got a kid to work with- I ended up with 2 last minute- and we imported all their photos and sort of worked through which one's were good and why etc. and gave them tips.  The kid I was working with first spoke a fair amount of English so it was pretty easy to communicate with her- and other than that we just used hand signals and drawings.  It was so fun- and all the kids were so cute!  After that we came back to the hotel and just kind of hung around all day, I didn't actually do much work- I even watched a really cheesy movie in my room called "just desserts" on the hallmark channel (it's one of 2 English channels) while I was being lazy and sort of napping.  Then Stacey and I went swimming and ran out of the ocean after she got stung by a jelly fish!  After that we decided to just lounge in the pool.  Then I met up with some people for happy hour and afterwards a bunch of us went down to the restaurant down the beach (on the deserted resort stairs) for dinner.  Then Stacey, Selket, and I went to Stacey's translator's bar to celebrate the 4th(Num is his name- though I don't know if I spelled that right).  He's in a band that plays there every night and they play good jam bandish music- so it was really fun.