More from the Carter family
If you’re the grown-up — this part’s for you. If you’re the reader — the story bits are all yours.
Renee’s two weeks in Guatemala start for real here.
The Creek Awakens — Chapter One
A first chapter, by B. A. Lumin
Two mornings into San Pedro Necta and Renee has stopped flinching at the rooster, mangled the purchase of some limes, and sat through a dinner where her translator keeps handing her the words and missing the joke everyone else is laughing at.
No problem — ask a grown-up to sign up for you and they can pass it along. Here’s a bit of the story while you’re here:
By her second morning in San Pedro Necta, Renee had stopped flinching every time the rooster outside Lucia’s window declared it was somehow already time to get up, and her legs no longer complained about the climb from the church the way they had the evening the team arrived. She’d spent the day before trailing Lucia through the village – carrying baskets at the market, mangling a purchase of limes, half-following a conversation between women hanging wash – while the rest of the Riverside Wesleyan team scattered to chores of their own. Sofia Reyes, the quiet high school senior Renee had been partnered with for the two weeks, had spent the afternoon measuring the half-finished school roof. Jenna Martinez had ducked in and out of the church office with Pastor Morales, sorting supply lists and asking after people she’d known since she was small.
By evening, dinner smelled like beans and woodsmoke before Renee even reached the door of Rosa’s house.
And the creek back home is still doing what it was doing. You’ll hear about that here before anywhere else.