A Field Day (Carnival) for the Little Girls!

This morning Alina & I headed to the little girls' house (that's my assignment).  After breakfast, Alina helped clean with the big girls.  They taught her how to use a mop properly...Latina-style!  She kept a good attitude while cleaning and I very much enjoyed watching her interact with the older girls, and also watching how the older girls are taking her under their wings.

After cleaning, Joanne and the Maryland group came over to begin measuring the girls.  This group measures all of the children each year so that their sponsors will know what size they're in, should they want to send clothing as Christmas gifts.  The sizing charts will most likely be posted online sometime between September and late October.  The group has pretty much gotten sizing down to a science and are very efficient about it.

Around noon, Maggie (another volunteer who's assigned to the little girls' house) and I went with the small girls down to the gymnasium for their field day, put on by the Maryland group.  They got hot dogs and chips for lunch and participated in a bunch of activities including 3-legged races, baseball (with a big whiffle ball), and numerous water games!  It was a bright, sunny, HOT day down here...so the water games were NICE!  Alina participated a lot, and I even allowed the girls to squirt me with their water guns from time to time.  I also did a 3-legged race with Joanne!  It was fun.  :-)

When the field day came to an end, Kimberly had already brought a bunch of stuff over to the apartment, to begin the "moving in" process.  She mentioned that she'd still sleep in the volunteer house for one more night but that she wanted to get some stuff over before-hand.  We decided that she would take the 2nd bedroom, which has 2 bunk beds and that for the meantime, Alina would sleep in the double bed with me so that she would feel a little more comfortable about being down here.

After everything of Kimberly's was in the apartment, we headed to supper with the little girls.  They decided to bathe the girls first and then do supper (whereas it is usually in the reverse order) since supper was not yet ready.  When all the girls were clean and had eaten, I headed back to the apartment to wait for Amy.

Amy is a long-term volunteer who teaches classes at the middle school (4th-6th grade).  She teaches the Spanish reading classes, but in a small group setting.  For the past few weeks, she has been in the high school teaching for a volunteer that is on a short leave with her family.  So, the middle school classes needed a teacher...which is where Katja mentioned my next job would be.  I made some Mexican guacamole for Amy and just about when I was finishing it up, she came knocking at the door.  We discussed the classes and what they all entailed.  It looks like I'll be up for a pretty busy weekend.  There are 4 books which I needed to read (in Spanish, of course) and then prepare questions for.  She mentioned that she generally discussed the books page-by-page.  The book reading level wasn't too bad at all...the most difficult level being the Chronicles of Narnia (Lion, Witch, Wardrobe) - which I actually haven't yet read in English!...just seen the movie.

So after Amy left, I began reading!