My First Day without Das :(

Well, today started like any other day before it, except for the fact that Das is no longer with me. She abandon me Sunday afternoon; I think it had to be the worst day of my trip so far. Anyways back to today, we got up at the normal time, about 6:30. After some prayer, coffee, and cookies Jasmine and I returned to her room to start some school. It wasn't long after that that Nicole left to the hospital in Veracruz to comfort a mother who had lost her unborn child the night before, and to help organize the funeral. That was a crazy ordeal in itself. After working all morning to figure out how to get the death certificate, a coffin, and money of a lot, the doctor told them that they could't have the babies body because her in Mexico it has to weigh 600 mg to be recognized as a child and it had only weighed 490 mg. So even thought it saved them time and money it was sad because the mother wanted to have a funeral and bury her baby.

Our morning her at the village was a slow one consisting of school, school, and more school, so much fun. It wasn't until after lunch that things started to get crazy. It all started at about 2 or 3 when Sed, Rojo, and Javier, Daya's husband, left for Las Colonies for some bread with Sed at the wheel. Not long after they left, Manuel came knocking at the door yelling that Javier, the little one, had hurt himself with a machete. While chopping wood for the boiler, he had some how cut through his shoe and into the side of his foot. There was blood all over his foot it looked awful, but Jason couldn't take him into the Doctor because Sed had the truck.

It was at about at that moment when Javier came running up the road to tell us that Sed had totaled the white truck. As Sed was coming around a turn there another truck was driving in his lane toward him, he slammed on the brakes, but because of the rain he slide and hit the truck and then the side of the mountain. Luckily on one was hurt. Well Sed has some cuts from the glass, but thank God that was all. So Jason went in a taxi to get find someone to tow the truck back to the village. Because of the corrupted government here in Mexico, whenever anyone gets in a wreck whether its their fault or not they just run. It would cost them tons of money to get the police involved because Sed is only 15 and it is against the law for him to be driving. Jason worked something out with the other driver before the police got there and then hid the truck in the woods until the police had gone by. The truck looked terrible, it was like falling apart as they towed it in the driveway.

Its was at that point that Nicole got home. By now they had washed off Javier's foot and wrapped it up. It wasn't long before we were on the road headed for the Doctor with Javier and Sed. Javier got four stitches on his foot, and Sed had to get one stitch behind his ear. It was a very eventful and traumatic afternoon. Thankfully we had a bit of a relaxing evening. Well, nothing else terrible happened. I guess that's all for now. Sorry if it's confusing :) Dios le bendiga!