Today was a great day with the kids. This morning we put on a Spa for them with manicures, pedicures, massages and facials. The kids had a great time and the group did an awesome job setting up. The little girls were outside playing in the dirt and making mud with water to get their nails dirty before the spa. So nice of them! We had the group make a backdrop for a photo shoot because another team in Canada is going to paint a portrait of each kid for them to have. This was fun and the backdrop that they make was awesome! I have some pictures of it with some of the kids posing. Carolina gave me a manicure which included scrubbing my hands and nails with a toothbrush, she didn't have to cut them obviously because they are also short, and then she rubbed some lotion on them and painted my nails with clear polish. Oh the luxury of living here :)
As soon as the spa ended, it started to pour down rain. It is a lot of fun playing with the kids in the rain here. I went over and hung out inside for a bit with one of the twins who had a rough, pouty morning and then I went outside and played in the drizzle. The boys were on the basketball court running thru the big puddles, standing under the drainage pipes from the roof of a building, basically like showering in the rain water and then pouring water on the volunteers with water bottles they had. The little girls were inside, playing slip-n-slide on the concrete comedor floor. They would run, then land on their knees sliding across the floor. Looked painful to me, but the kids here are so tough!
Wilkie, one of the boys that used to live here but now lives in Santiago came today to meet with Coco. He had lunch with us and I got to catch up with him some. He is a very sweet boy and it is also fun to see the older kids that have left the orphanage. I talked with him some after lunch before heading up for a nap.
After siesta we had a short activity with the kids. We read with them for about 30 minutes; I sat with Luz Maria and read Clifford in Spanish. Then we did crafts for 30 minutes, making bracelets, stenciling, and coloring. They enjoy making beaded necklaces and bracelets and they all had them on, even tonight at church.
After the activity I hung out with some of the local boys from town that came in to visit. They have grown up around the orphanage and are very nice, respectful boys!
I got ready for church, had our little weekly worship with John on the roof and then headed to dinner. After dinner, we had a talk with the group about our trip to Dajabon, the border town between the DR and Haiti, that we are taking tomorrow morning. We then headed to church and had a short sermon tonight. I sat in the back with the older kids and some of the boys from town and they were more distracting than the younger kids. Carolina was singing as Pastor was preaching, and everyone else was chitter chatting from time to time. Oh well, guess after sitting there for 3 hours I'd get restless too!
That's all for tonight. Tomorrow is the field trip day for the group, we tour Dajabon in the morning and head to lunch in town, then to the beach for the afternoon. Hard to believe their week is almost over! Tomorrow night we are having a festival/carnival with the kids which should be exciting!
Here are my pictures from today!
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