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Left to Right: Kaylyn, Sofia and Alina |
After Circle ended, we headed to the comedor for breakfast. We heard that the high school was going to have a sports and activities day today, so I asked Elvia if Alina, Noah and Kaylyn could participate with the classes and she said that'd be great! We walked the toddlers back to their house and then headed to our room for the kiddos to change into more athletic attire.
At the school they decided to play soccer, zumba, twister and checkers. The day started out with a girls soccer game, and the girls said they wanted Alina to play with them. The boys invited Noah to help announce the game, and Noah was just hilarious because it was extremely difficult for him to follow the fast-paced talk (in Spanish of course) of the game. This may have been the very first time that Alina has EVER played soccer in her life!...so the pictures below might be a little deceiving. Her team lost 0-6.
The boys began to play after the girls game ended, and Noah was out on the field playing (I didn't get any pictures in time), but it began to rain the and game got cancelled. We went back into the school in order to get out of the rain. A few of the teachers were selling chips with cole slaw and charamuscas, so I bought each of the kids a plate to snack on while they watched some students play twister.
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Kaylyn with her plato and charamusca |
When the finished twister, they got the TV and Wii out in order to have a Zumba competition. There were a few students who decided to compete against each other in Zumba. The boys pulled their microphone and speakers inside and made suggestions on who should compete. They (and the students) asked for Alina to compete against Noah in Zumba. It was so fun to hear the students cheering for Alina and Noah as they competed against each other dancing to the Zumba recording. I think Alina and Noah (who were hesitant to do it at first) were glad they did it and had a lot of fun.
We headed to lunch and then after lunch spent most of the afternoon giving away Alina's, Noah's and Kaylyn's Oshkosh North, Blizzard and Appleton West uniforms and warm-up jerseys that they've had through the years. The girls were SO excited to get them!
Before we knew it, it was supper time. Alina walked her 2 toddler boys back to their house and I walked back to my room. As I walked back, a girl came running up to me, telling me that Yency was in the office getting her papers. I thought it was a girl who is here at the orphanage who I see on a daily basis, so I wasn't in too much of a hurry to get to the office. I went to my room to go to the bathroom and then made myself a cup of coffee, and then chatted just a little with the neighbors when Sofia came running past me and said that Yency was in the office and I needed to get down there, and then she said, "Coco's sister". This Yency I had not seen in 5 years when she left Emmanuel. She was one of the original girls in the room I was put in charge of 12 years ago! I was so excited that I let the neighbors know I'd be right back and sprinted to the office. It was so nice to give her a hug once again!!! I got a couple of pictures and then Alina came running down the hill. A girl told her about Yency and she said she sprinted all the way from the toddler house to the office (it's quite a ways, and hilly), she said with her basketball slides...she just about sprained/broke her ankle, so she took them off and ran in her socks!
Coco came down and so they both went into the office to chat for a bit. Alina and I hung around for a little bit but then decided to head back up to our room and give them the time/space to chat since they are twins. It wasn't much after that Coco shouted up toward the hill to our room that Yency wanted to see me one more time to say Goodbye. So of course I ran back down to the office (with Alina).
I really feel like this was a blessing, our last night at Emmanuel and we get to see Yency. God is good!