Week 20
16th- 22nd January 2012
This week was our final week working at the school. Although it was sad to be leaving the children and teachers whom we had gotten to know it was also a happy time with lots of birthday fiestas! Not only was this the last week of term for the children but it was also the dreaded 'exam' week. We still went into the different classes and 'helped' (the children trying to get us to answer the questions for them)! During break times we made the most of being able to spend time with these delightful bundles of fun and energy. On monday Damaris in 2nd Basica had a surprise birthday party with piñatas, birthday cake and balloons. All of the children where delighted that they didn't have to do anymore exams for the day.
On friday the last day at school all the pre-school classes 1st and 2nd incial and 1st Basica had a party where al the children who had birthdays that term where celebrated. Lots of little children wearing birthday hats getting very excited and giggling at the clown that came in to entertain them! It was with heavy hearts that we left the school already missing all the smiley faces of the children and their funny habits. Such as Dominic with his tiny little legs constantly running everywhere, Justin making beep beep noises and pretending to be a car, David coming over to sit on Robin's lap and babble away to him, Joel's incredibly cheeky smile and sticky fingers, Jonathon's love of climbing through your legs, Valeria's steely grip ensuring I sit next to her in class, Junior's love of hanging upside down, the girls playing horses and chase, Derlis pretending to be a lobo (wolf) and chasing others around the play area, Melanie's incredible strength, 3rd Basica's ability to play nicely and include the girls in football games, Ariel's hyperactiveness, Andres's laid back approach to learning and so much more. They all are such wonderful children and we both feel that getting to know them has been such a priviledge and joy.
Check out this weeks photos by clicking on this LINK.
However we looked forward to the next two weeks working at the compassion project where we might stumble across one or two of the children from the school. It came as a surprise to realise that the compassion project was going to be shut for the next week and half but would re-open from the 1st to the 18th Feb! Whilst we where working there on saturday we realised that there was a serious lack of any sort of games equipment (only 1 basketball)! We discovered this when we went with a group of 20 to 30 odd teenagers to the park which has a football pitch and basketball pitch only to discover that nobody had a ball which lead to 15 mins of hanging around until everyone headed back to the compassion project base. An unsuccesful trip! Although the compassion project has over 300 children coming through it's door's the resources they have are extremely limited with the majority of money spent on feeding the children.
As our plans have slightly changed please pray that we may use this free time wisely. Please also pray for the Vallejo family that our good relationship with them stays strong as we haven't seen that much of the extended family recently. Please also pray for all the children in the school and compassion project that God would protect them and that they would enjoy their vacation. As always please pray for our saftey and good health!
Other highlights this week:
-Going swimming at the gym Robin attends which is full of posters of horribly overly muscular men for inspiration check out the pictures to see some!
-Peter the rochweiler has a not one but two girlfriends!! Someone brought their female rochweiler over hoping for peter to help produce pups............. unfortunatly Peter did not like either lady and now Carlos is worried about his manliness!
-Junior during lunch break running around with a broom between his legs as a hobby horse. Very cute.
No comments:
Post a Comment