Oh, All The Places I'll Go: The Day I Had My 1st Plaintain

Breakfast was an awesome start to the day: sautéed plaintains! yummmm! and horchata! (which i've had once, this summer in california. so good.) so breakfast was good.

at the Guarderia, we sorted more rocks, dug in the dirt, sorted through sand. i don't know how to emphasize how awful these rocks were haha. we just had a few buckets and we had to sit there, sorting...usually we chose a certain sized rock and tried to find any rock that size...once the bucket was full enough to be heavy we carried it to the stairs to the yard and dumped them into another pile of rocks for that size. then we also got to a point where we needed like small rocks and sand to put where the pipes were laid down. so we had to shovel sand/tiny rocks into buckets, create a sort of assembly line so someone was shoveling, another brought the bucket to the person right after the stairs, that person brought it to the one that walked to the pipes and dumped the rocks. hard work in the hot hot sun! i swear, my right bicep definitely got bigger by the end of the trip and my arm muscles are already too defined for my tiny body so it was weird.

but anyways. inside we were prepping the big playroom wall to paint a mural, so we were painting it with primer. we also played duck, duck, goose, which is one of their favorite games. there, they call it "pato, pato, gonzo!" so funny. all the kids wanted to be gonzo and they would just run and run in circles and we had to yell for them to sit down, otherwise they would just run and run and run lol.

i also made a bracelet for a girl named Lourdes monday night so today i gave it to her, she's so adorable. she's about 6 years old and she takes care of her brother, Carlitos; she's always picking him up and making sure he's eating his lunch and they walk home together. Lourdes and Carlitos are actually sponsored by Sharon. but i gave her the bracelet and since i don't know spanish the only thing i was saying was "te gusta?" ("you like it?") lol. but she had a little smile on her face and she was wearing it everyday the rest of the week so its all good :)

dinner was awesome as always, so much delicious fruit (we had melon every single day). lots of mosquito bites, bug spray is my best friend. and tuesday nights is when the older kids practice playing music at the church so the air was filled with their lively church songs, a good relaxing way to end the day :)