It's the Weekend!

Friday is here at last. Woohoo! Today I spent the morning working hard on the Dental Unit and also called my Mommy and Daddy to say hello and see what they were dressing up as for Halloween! :) You guys are probably dancing the night away right now as I type. Wish I could be at the lake!

This afternoon, I attempted to play left, right, center but got taken over by 3,4,5 year olds that were trying to play. We'd ask them which hand was their right hand and they'd raise their left. However, I tried to let them play and just tell them where to pass their pieces but then they started taking them from the center and just didn't get the concept. It moved too slow for them so we quit playing! Instead, I tickled Jennifer on the table for a little while and then went over and hung out with some more kids until it was time to get back to work.

I took my camera down and got some pretty decent pictures of the kids which I've posted. Paola was one of the girls that didn't want her picture taken but then decided she wanted to do a photo shoot. It was fun.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Geedz913/OrphanageKids02?feat=directlink

I went back to work for about 2 more hours finishing up the Dental Unit and the Vaccine Unit that I still had to finish from last week.

Paola wanted to play left, right, center earlier so after working I attempted once again to play with her and Christine but got bombarded with children so we quit playing. As we were finishing up, David jumped on my back and Luis Alberto was standing on the table getting ready to jump to me. I didn't want to catch him so I stepped backwards, but as I stepped back he continued to jump and he jumped hard! He face planted the ground, cutting open his knee. I felt so bad because I thought he would be able to catch himself and land on his feet but he did not! It was a like a belly flop onto the ground! OUCH!

So needless to say, after that I held him until it was time for dinner. He finally came around after putting a band-aid on it but he kept saying OW! OW! for a while! Poor little baby!

Tonight was Mexican night for dinner! We had chicken quesadillas (Dominican style), rice, beans, and avocados! It was awesome!

After dinner I went and played with the kids. We had fun. At first we played 1,2,3, mariposita (little butterfly). One person stood with their back to everyone else and counted 1,2,3, mariposita and everyone ran towards them but when they turn around you have to stop moving or go back to the start. We played this for a bit but then went to the basketball court for an even better game.

One person was it, and everyone else came up with an action to do as a group. Then the group headed down the court, within arms distance from the person and they asked some questions I didn't understand and then said, "and how do you do it" and the group acted out the action. The person had to guess what we were doing and if they said it you had to run to the other end of the court without getting tagged. It was a lot of fun but a little dangerous. I ran into one of the older girls smacking her in the chest and her stepping on my ankle!

After this I got summoned by Jessica again to sit down and tickle her. She is funny because she always calls Jenny over to sit with us, even though I only tickle her. We hung out for a little bit before I headed to a basketball game in town.

There is a league in Monte Cristi of adults/high schoolers that are playing a basketball tournament and we went tonight to watch. I got to drive us without Coco for the first time! It cost 25 pesos (less than a dollar) to enter and was pretty fun to watch. We of course were the opening spectale before the game because we were obviously the only Americans there. You'd think they'd be used to us by now but I guess we don't get out much! :)

During the game, Jazmin came who is a previous orphanage girl that I am friends with. She now lives in Monte Cristi and works here but I hadn't seen her since I've been back. I was very excited to see her and spent about 20 minutes just sitting and talking with her. She lived at the orphanage from 5 months-18 years old and I met her my first time down in 2006. Her twin sister is Yanina, who still lives her because of her handicap.

Tomorrow is cleaning day and we are going to Jaibon, the other orphanage, in the afternoon to play with the boys there. We also are stopping for lunch on the way at a place that apparently has really good goat, so guess I'll be eating that tomorrow! Good night and Happy Halloween (almost)!