All About Hair

Even though it was Saturday, we are still working.  Our only day off as volunteers is Sunday.  So that means our day began as all of the others this week, the girls and I heading to the toddler house and Noah heading to the grandecitos house, breakfast and then hanging out with those kids.  

Because we were in the chosa all morning (4.5-5 hours), some of the big girls decided to braid Kaylyn's hair.  Unfortunately, Kaylyn was really not in the mood to be in the toddler house (I won't get into details on that), so I had to walk her back to the room and lock her in for the rest of the morning.  So instead, the girls asked Alina if they could braid her hair.  It turned out really nice and they asked Alina to leave the braids in until Monday when they would take them out.

We headed to lunch and then Alina walked the toddlers back to the toddler house while I walked Kaylyn back to our room to rest a little bit more until early afternoon when we'd have to head back to the toddler house.  When we headed back, Alina was watching a movie with some of the big girls.  She had used her spending money to buy a bunch of snacks and 3-liter sodas (yes, you read that right) for the girls.  She let me know that that she was surprised the 3-liter sodas were only $2 USD each!

We took the toddlers to supper and when we got back and showered them, another girl asked if she could crimp Kaylyn's hair.  Knowing that we had to wait for Invisible (Pamela) to celebrate Angel's birthday with his mom, Cecilia, I said "yes".  Invisible and a few others got chinese rice, soda and cake to celebrate Angel's birthday with all of the toddlers and the big girls at the house.  She shared the rice and cake with us (she had invited me earlier in the week) and also sent a plate for Alina, who had went back to the room early because she didn't feel well.  She also cut a slice of cake for Noah.

When Kaylyn and I got back to the room, Noah was gone.  Alina said he had just left for the medianos house.  She still wasn't feeling very well, and we went through the 4th power outage since being here a week ago.  This one, fortunately for Alina, only lasted about 20 minutes or so.  I say fortunately since she was on the brink of having to sprint to the bathroom.

When Noah got back, he ate the rice and cake and locked up for the night.  It's pretty dark here by 7pm, so we generally head to bed just before 8pm.