Happy Holy Week, which is like vacation week here or Spring Break basically. There is no school this week and many people have vacation, at least Thursday and Friday for sure.
This weekend was a pretty low key weekend. My body shut down completely and I was exhausted. Saturday morning I had to get up at 3am to see a volunteer off, then went back to bed. I woke back up at 7am to say goodbye to more people and went back to sleep before 8am breakfast. Ate breakfast, fell back asleep from 9-10am and said goodbye to the last group. Then went back to sleep until lunch at 12. Then after lunch I fell asleep from 1:45-3:15 and finally woke up! I was still exhausted however and went to bed around 9:45pm! Then Sunday I took another 2 hour nap or so after orientation.
Finally I think I've caught up on sleep for the most part. We have a group of high schoolers here this week along with 5 families with kids aged 11-17. It is a fun group.
Today was our excursion day because of Holy Week. The beaches tend to be very crowded on Friday of this week and there is a lot of drinking that goes on so to avoid any problems we went to the beach today instead of Friday this week. Which means...I got to see my roomies Friday and today because they both have been living in Jaibon at the other orphanage for the past 2-3 weeks and I haven't seen them much. So, I got to hang out with them today at lunch and on the beach which was fun. They move back Saturday for the rest of my time which is great! I've missed them! I have the room all to myself right now, which means it is messy! Surprise, surprise!
I went on a hospital tour today with the Melgar Family that was here last week. We got some ice cream and walked around town a little.
Other than that the day was pretty uneventful. I've been able to spend more time with the kids recently which has been great. This week we are doing activities here with the kids, out in the bateyes (poor farm villages) and there is an English camp at the Institute. I'll be working here and in the bateyes so I'll get some good pictures!
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