Community Day #HogsAbroad in Belize

Since our trip was coming to an end soon it was time for community day.  Community Day is a fair that our university students put on for the community of Dangriga.  The health, social work, business, and engineering teams all set up individual booths and had games relating to their specific field for the students to come participate in.  

 

My job at community day was to be a face painter.  The kids went crazy over it.  I painted so many kids faces I can’t even count how many.  My shift was 2 hours and then someone relieved me.  When I wasn’t paint faces I hung out with the kids and played soccer with them.  It was so fun and see all the kids come from the different schools.  A few kids even recognized me from the classroom and called me Ms. Julie.  

 

Since community day in Dangriga I started to realize that my amazing adventure was about to end.  All the students in Dangriga changed my life in many ways.  They are the sweetest kids I have met considering they have so much less than kids in the United States.  Working with these kids has been such an amazing and humbling experience.  I’m so thankful I got this opportunity.

-Julie

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Learn more about the U of A Community Development in Belize summer program at http://studyabroad.uark.edu/belize

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