June 8, 2009
We got back to Dangriga on Saturday night, because Sunday morning was Community Day.  Community Day is organized primarily by the business group (not quite sure why), and it’s an event where our groups can show the community the projects we’ve been working on the past 3 weeks.  The event started at 10:30 with a beach clean up.  A lot of kids came out to help pick up trash (which is a really big problem here, people just throw there trash everywhere.  Last year, the business group started a trash can initiative, and it actually caught on.  A lot more people are using trash cans now, and we’re trying to teach the younger generation of kids to use trash cans, too).  After that, the mayor read to everyone and a lot of kids read poems they’d been working on in class with the literacy group.  A group of kids from Christ the King were also there sellling juice.  The past 3 weeks in class with them we’ve been learning about business terms, business math, and simulating a market.  On community day, the kids got to run there own business selling juice— they calculated all the costs and figured out what price and how many cups they would have to sell to make a profit.  They ended up making money off of the juice stand, they were really proud.

We got back to Dangriga on Saturday night, because Sunday morning was Community Day.  Community Day is organized primarily by the business group (not quite sure why), and it’s an event where our groups can show the community the projects we’ve been working on the past 3 weeks.  The event started at 10:30 with a beach clean up.  A lot of kids came out to help pick up trash (which is a really big problem here, people just throw there trash everywhere.  Last year, the business group started a trash can initiative, and it actually caught on.  A lot more people are using trash cans now, and we’re trying to teach the younger generation of kids to use trash cans, too).  After that, the mayor read to everyone and a lot of kids read poems they’d been working on in class with the literacy group.  A group of kids from Christ the King were also there sellling juice.  The past 3 weeks in class with them we’ve been learning about business terms, business math, and simulating a market.  On community day, the kids got to run there own business selling juice— they calculated all the costs and figured out what price and how many cups they would have to sell to make a profit.  They ended up making money off of the juice stand, they were really proud.