Week 12
21st- 27th November 2011
Another busy week! We have traveled to Quito and back for the monthly latin link prayer meeting, worked in the school and gone for a dip in yet another rio! The children have been learning fruit and veg in English and are getting very excited about Christmass as their classroom’s are getting covered in tinsel and decorations. We have officially become the saca mi punto team (pencil sharpener team) amongst the smaller children and the creater of ‘fun’ but educational games for the older children in English lessons. Robin’s favourite is to play a version of splat but using English words.
As usual the children were delightful if a little naughty at times. In p.e this week all the children were learning things about balance by trying to swing a hoop round their bodies or pushing it along the ground. Junior was running wild loving throwing his hoop, in particular at the poor man trying to deliver the clean water bottles to the school. I have discovered that there is nothing the 3 year olds like better then getting tickled so most of the lunch breaks are spent tickling. Although these children are an absoloute delight they are also the givers of great gifts one of which I have managed to receive ……………….. nits.
It was great to meet up with everyone in Quito and see how they are all doing. Unfortunatly I had a stinking cold (along with an itchy head) so we didn’t stay in Quito a long time.
Sunday our day of rest was interrupted by a trip to a local Rio with Carlos’s family who also brought things for cooking. The rio was fast flowing with rapids and plenty of places to jump in which delighted Robin and terrified me. Enoah was as keen as always to get into the river and is getting stronger at swimming ……..with her arm bands on. Ceasar, Pati and Christian made a fire and with a huge pan cooked chicken and paticones (fried green bananas) my new Ecuadorian favourite. It was another fantastic day even though the mosquitos took a particular fondness to me!
Check out our pictures of this week by clicking on this LINK.
This week please pray for our health and safety (boring but essential). Also please pray for continued good relations with Carlos’s family and the teachers and children at the school and compassion project. Finally for lower crime rates in Santo Domingo especially in the barrio’s.
Mucho Amor de Ecuador xxx
A funny moment this week:
- - Ordering ‘pasta’ with pork for lunch and getting ‘pata’ a big pig trotter complete with nails intact on my plate. (Pata means foot)
- -Spending 3 hours in the bathroom removing the nits from my hair!
We have a postal address if anyone wants to send us anything it’s:
Casilla 17-24-351,
Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas,
Ecuador
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