Friday, May 31, 2013

First Day at Talita Cumi



This morning, we started our projects for the week.  While here, we will be painting the girls' dorms and creating space for swings.  While the girls worked inside scraping and priming the walls, the boys took turns swinging at the brick wall, which needs to be removed for the new swings. Everyone took on their duty and worked hard, resulting in a lot of progress already on day one.


Once the kids returned home from school, we joined them for a delicious lunch prepared by the tias (aunts) at the orphanage.
To get to know each others' names better, we brought along the Blanket Game.  In this game, you have to yell the person's name across from you when the blanket is dropped before they say yours.  The kids absolutely loved this! 




To finish out the day, we took the kids to the Cancha.  There we played basketball, football, and soccer while some just relaxed on the playground.  Once it started sprinkling, the kids went back to Talita Cumi while we returned to The Gather for dinner and rest, so another great day can take place tomorrow!

Alyssa Ediger

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