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| Here's the crew! |
Alrighty, I’m about T minus 24 hours from takeoff to go home for what I think will be an awesome, busy (and cold!) week! Fortunately, things have calmed down a little bit here this past week…they’re still as busy as always but certainly less stressful, gracias a Dios. Here’s a quick look at the past week!
Noche de Miedo
So this past Friday night, us volunteers put on a Scary Mystery Night for the older boys. We all got dressed up and we came up with a mystery the boys had to solve by going around to different spots on sight and solving riddles (like a twisted version of a scavenger hunt). It was a blast and we CERTAINLY got some good scares in. The night finished off in the library/abandoned house in the school where everyone watched a scary movie. I dressed up as a crazy clown, Avriel dressed up as a loca, and Madelon dressed up as the señora from the mystery story.
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| Joe, Madelon, Avriel, me, and Pili! |
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| The twins! |
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| Joe at breakfast! |
The Weekend
The weekend was essentially a hodge-podge of visits and games. On Saturday morning, we had two different groups of visitors from the capital. In the afternoon, I brought some word searches over to the house (thank you Becca and Becky!) and the girls went crazy…they LOVED them…couldn’t stop doing them even for supper! We also did an impromptu dance party on the back terrace. That’s always fun! Saturday night was the ‘official start’ of the Christmas season at NPH, so we brought out the Christmas tree in the house. More decorations to come after my trip home. We also played some English games and of course, Dominoes.
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| Sopa de letras obsession! (Lucy, Franchesca, Erika) |
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| Jacqueline had some fun with the markers! |
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| Sta. Rosa impromptu photo shoot! |
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| Dancing bachata with Daniela! |
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| Mayelin! |
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| Singing away! |
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| And out comes the Christmas tree! |
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| Here are the very-broken lights! |
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| Yudelkis...one of the quince girls...what a cutie! |
Proyecto Familiar
I did another Family Project, this time with Sulema, Maria Ines, and Agustin. Sulema was the helper in my house for my first 8 months here. She’s 17, Maria Ines is 15, and Agustin is 9….a VERY cute family. We made pizza, tried Valentina hot sauce (that was funny!) and Agustin learned how to use a fork and knife to cut food up (he may or may not have had the knife flipped upside down!)
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| Sulema, me, Agustin, and Maria Ines! |
GOING HOME!
So tomorrow’s the day…I’m going home! Since I’ve got the teenage girls house and they don’t always behave like angels (to put it nicely), I’ve worked out a deal with them. I’m gonna come back to the DR with chocolate from my country, LOTS of chocolate. And then they and the tia are gonna tell me how they behaved. If they behaved well, the chocolate is theirs….if not, the chocolate goes to the volunteers, hehe. We’ll see how that works…fortunately, 13-year old girls are pretty motivated by chocolate. I’m so so SO excited to be going home and to see family and friends, but it is also the first time I’ll have been away from the girls this long in nearly a year. I think the longest I’ve been away has been 5 days otherwise…so this is double! I’ll be getting back next Friday, the 23rd, as 3 of my girls (and 8 girls total) are celebrating their Quinceañeras on the 24th…that has been ALL the talk lately. And then the following weekend is Confirmation (I’m one of my girls’ sponsors) and the day after Confirmation, Avriel and I take off for a week visit to our home in Haiti. And then before we know it, BAM, Christmas is here! SO much fun stuff coming up!
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