Week 16
20th- 26th December 2011
This week has been full of Christmas fiesta´s and celebrations! The school had its christmas show complete with the selection of the school princess and prince and Carlos´s family partied through the night until 5:30am to loud music to celebrate christmas and ate the pig that we helped select (whilst still alive)! We even managed to have a english christmas dinner on christmas day with Katy, Gill, Victoria and Amy some other missionaries in Santo Domingo.
We where kindly invited along to the staff christmas meal at a parillada restaurant (mixed grill) where they served loads of meat including heart, kidneys and cows udder! Nothing goes to waste out here and whilst we grimace at the thought of eating a cows eye the other teachers on the table raved about how delicious it is and their particular favourite is ´patas´ feet!
Robin perfomed his role well at the school christmas show dressed up as Papa Noel (santa clause) with only one small incident when the teacher managed to glue gun the beard to his scalp! The children all got very excited to see Papa Noel and wanted to sit on his knee and get a sweet off him. The parents were equally delighted as they swrmed round the children like paparazzi blocking the stage off from view as their child came up to perform. Our performance with 5th Basica the oldest students in the school (aged 10-11yrs) singing Jingle Bells and We wish you a merry christmas went very well! All the children rememebered the words and sang loudly. The best bit was that Robin was handed a microphone so everyone could hear his beautiful singing voice. Each class performed a different song or dance and one class even did the nativity play it was chaos but absoloutly fantastic. Best of all where all the amazing and very cute costumes, christmas elves, mini mary´s and shepherds, angels, Bells and presents!
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From each class there was one young boy and girl selected to take part in the schools selection of the princess and prince. It was very cute and slightly strange to watch a pair of 3 yr old´s dressed in big puffy dresses and suites try to strut down the aisle and pose, blowing little kisses to the crowd! But the selection thankfully wasnt by popular vote but by selecting a star of the christmas tree and when they opened it up it said whether they where the princess or not. As it happened Damarsis from 2nd Basica (very intelligent young girl) was eleted princess and Aerial from 5th Basica the prince.
Carlos´s family celebrated Christmas on christmas eve by cooking a big meal for everyone of roast pork and tortilla´s and then spent the rest of the evening dancing, drinking and playing cards. Ceasar had a particular fondness of the microphone and spent most of the evening talking or singing into it! At near midnight all the children bundled into the front room in order to open their christmas presents. Unlike England where adults get presents as well as children in Ecuador it is solely children who get presents and once they hit 15yrs old and are officially an adult they dont get anymore. Also unlike England not that many families can afford to buy christmas gifts for their children including some of the children at the school. But Enoah was absoloutly delighted at her presents and pranced around in her princess tiarra and fluffy shoes jabering away into her fake pink mobile! We received a lovely gift of a traditional idigenous indian wooden mini xylopohone.
Robin is slowly recovering from an overly acidic stomach and possibly amoebic dysantry as well so please continue to pray for his health and mine. Every day people tell us new things that could have caused us to get ill and there is no way of knowing what was the original cause so please pray for our safety whilst eating and drinking. Please also pray we dont get malaria as we have had to stop taking the tablets due to bad reactions to the pills. As we enter this new year please pray for the lives of all the children at the compassion project and school that they wont end up getting into drugs or becoming robbers but that they would be encouraged by the staff and volunteers to achieve the best they can and live God filled lives. Finally as 2012 comes creeping around the corner and our minds drift towards home and our return to old blighty please pray that God will help us find the right jobs upon our return.
Finally a Happy New Year to you all! Lots of love from Ecuador xxx
Other things that have amused us this week:
- It doesnt sound right but I have to say avocado milkshakes are delicious! We shared one with Freddie this week.
- Eating cows udder and heart at the staff christmas meal. One was very hard and the other very soft!
- Robin pretending to be a ´lobo´ (werewolf) and roaring at the children as all the children from the entire school hid under the stage and screamed everytime he roared.
- Pastor Anibel, Carlos and Reuben barging into our bedroom on christmas eve to pray over Robin´s bad stomach.
- Enoah lying curled up in Robin´s lap sweetly, in her pyjamas until she kicked him in the face!
-Santa Clause coming to visit us all the way out here in Ecuador with some lovely gifts.
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