Happy Easter to all! This is the first major holiday I have spent down here at Orphanage Emmanuel. My goal is to spend a Christmas here, but that may be a few years down the road yet...and this was just by happenstance, since Noah is down here. This morning I headed to the toddler house to pick up Brithany. I had bought her 3 dresses on Facebook Marketplace for a total of $8, since I wasn't sure how much she had grown since last fall's sizing charts came out. Turns out the smallest size fit her perfectly and the other 2 dresses were able to be shared with girls who are a little bit bigger. She was excited to head to church and behaved perfectly, with a little nap on the church pews after a while.
After church, Noah said he would treat us all at the Tienda. He invited his friends Maycol, Olvin and Alejandro and I brought Brithany and had Noah go pick up Dilver. Each kid got some chips (called churros here) and either a soda, chocolate milk or juice. There was a volunteer who had stayed very short term with Noah in the Volunteer House who left 3 pairs of shoes, so Noah gave them to his friends. Unfortunately Alejandro has extremely tiny feet (size 6), so even the smallest pair was way too big on him. Noah's 3 friends kept stealing his chocolate milk and his Chokis (chocolate chip cookies like Chips Ahoy, but my kids say they're better) and hiding them. It was fun to watch the boys be boys. Dilver (who is 6 years old) kept telling me that they were going to fight, but I knew better. And each time that Dilver saw which boy took Noah's snacks, he would point to that boy so Noah would know. Before heading to lunch, we took a picture of Noah and his friends...had to get the silly shots in too!
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| Left to Right: Olvin, Maycol, Alejandro, Noah |
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| Me and Dilver |
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| Brithany in her new dress with chips |
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| Maycol, Olvin, Noah, Alejandro |
After lunch, Noah made arrangements for us to go visit Moncho, his wife Ana Yanci and their 2 boys Jonathan and Santiago. It was fun seeing their new house and taking time to catch up from the past bunch of months. On the way back to Emmanuel, Moncho stopped at Tia Gladis' house. She asked for me to stop by to visit since she had remembered Alina really well quite a few years ago, when Alina was invited to stay overnight in the girls dorm by Michell. Tia Gladis was in charge of the night watch of that house that year, so each evening when Alina would go that way to watch TV with the girls and then the night she spent there, Gladis remember very well. We then stopped by Glenda's on the way back as well and chatted for a quick moment. Glenda mentioned she liked my earrings, so I just gave them to her under the condition that the next time Noah went into town, she had them on and he would take a picture of the two of them with the earrings on! I have known Glenda since my first trip down in 2008. Along with only a few others here, she is definitely a staple to my visits.
Noah and I had supper in the Comedor and then spent the rest of the night in the house checking vacation spots for him when his 90 day visa is up. Right now he is leaning towards Cancun, Mexico.
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