What's Normal?!?!?

So, I was going to post a blog about the sleepover I had with one of the groups of girls last night. Then I thought, 'I always do posts on the "special" activities that I do with the kids, and hardly ever write about the "normal" things I do'. As I was thinking about this I thought about how my "new normal" IS doing all those "special" things. Yes, I continue to have two English classes a day four days a week, open up the library, have nightly devotions with the younger girls, Friday night game night, and two weekly Bible studies. But even these normal weekly activities are sometimes put aside in order to do something different with a certain group of kids. It keeps life interesting.

Enjoying baleadas at 10:30 at night.

Picnic Time!

Today I took "my girls" over to the other Finca property for a picnic and to play. Some of the girls were especially excited to know that they were going to eat sandwiches (a special treat) instead of the soup that the rest of the kids were going to eat for lunch. 

We also had fun playing soccer. We started out pretty energetically...

...and quickly got tired...or started trying to use the goal posts as a jungle gym.

One of the girls, Andreita (Andrea +ita --ita means little) had my camera for awhile and took alot of pictures. I thought I'd share some of the things she found and chose to take pictures of...

 (Andreita)

 One of the things that the kids like about going to the other Finca is getting huge lemons...and eating them plain, or perhaps with some salt. (You can see the size on the photo below and also on one up further.)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! With the start of a new year life is a little more calm here at the Finca. A bunch of the kids went to be with their families for the month of January, and there are not as many activities going on; but its still pretty easy to keep busy finding things to do with the kids. :-)

This past Thursday I took a few girls with me to visit Ceder, and elderly home in Teguc. I believe that its a great oppurtunity for these youth to get out of their comfort zone and reach out to these elderly people. I wanted to combine the time of reaching out with fun too--so after spending time at Ceder we ate lunch at a restaurant and walked around centro.

 This past Friday we celebrated another birthday..and a "new member" of the Friday night group.