Monday: Spanish school and then...I can´t remember but I´m sure it was cool. Oh i remember now, I just did laundry. Not that cool.
Tuesday: We traveled to the Guate City in the morning con Marcia to visit CEDEPCA. CEDEPCA was such an amazing organization! Everybody was sooo nice and it was so interesting to learn about all the work they do. They do a lot of work with women and have women´s rights classes and they do a lot of education work with visiting groups. I can´t wait to work with them in the future.Spanish school in the afternoon.
Wednesday: Spanish school in the morning and then Annie, Kate and I went on an adventure. We visited the most amazing school ever called the Arms of Jesus. It´s a school in a little town for really poor children and the school offers a lot of free services to them. They have free basic healthcare, dental services, free hair cuts and the school also teaches children how to use computers and sew. The administrators of the school were SO amazingly nice and grateful that we even came to visit. It was like the happiest place on earth. We walked into a classroom of five year olds and every single kid ran up to us and gave us all hugs. I don´t know if you have ever been swarmed by happy five year olds, but I absolutely loved it. Then we went to a school called Patajos ( i probably have the name wrong) but it is a school for street kids. The school teaches the kids breakdancing and painting and it was also amazing. I met a lovely ten year old boy named Samuel who put his hand on my leg and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I think I am going to marry him. Just kidding!
Thursday: Spanish school in the morning... and then the women´s co-op! It was called Corazon de Mujeres (i think) and it was formed by women who were affected by the violence and civil war. One of the women told us her story about the violence and it was so sad but it was good to hear it. They all sew beautiful crafts and the money goes to send their children to school so they will have better futures. I bought a beautiful scarf and it is so soft!
Friday: Spanish school...and then sabbath time with Marcia. We talked about the enneogram (spelled it wrong) which is a personality type test thing. I did not fit any of the personality types, clearly I do not have a personality. We ate nachos as big as our head, picture to follow. They were good but I definitely ate too much. You know you over did it when six hours and one kickboxing class later, you are still full. I saw a boxing gym in Antigua so if I could find one in Xela, I would be the happiest YAV ever.
In other news, the ratio of Spanish I can understand is now larger than the ratio of Spanish I do not understand. Yay! I read the newspaper every day in school and tell my teacher about it, she is always very excited. There is a drink here called arroz con leche, it´s warm milk with sweet rice and it is so good! I always tell my teacher about it and she made me some on Friday and brought it to school with her! People in the Guate have such big hearts.
Sorry for such a long post, I was so busy! I´m sure I´m still forgetting stuff but my memory seems to be failing me these days..the joys of getting old!
Oh! Arms of Jesus website, go look and sponsor a child, they need our help! armsofjesus.org
Also, sorry for my bad spelling, it´s become very hard for me to spell in English since I speak Spanish all the time.
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