I love hanging out with kids, they give you all sorts of good reasons to eat ice cream and watch cartoons!
Little Elvira had surgery again to remove the screws from her hips. Looks like they did something else too but not sure what. Unfortunately that likely means a slip-back in the progress she has made this year.
Lunch time!
I am at 3 weeks until I leave Nicaragua and a month until I am home in Canada! UNREAL! is about all I can say. I seriously remember back in September when I felt like I still had such a long time ahead of me, and now I can hardly believe how quickly time has gone. And the unfortunate thing is that it is only going to go even quicker.
Tomorrow morning I will be heading out to Honduras for our Central America meeting. All the MCC teams within Central America meet every 18 months.....and hallelujah, it falls within the time I am here. So we are heading out tomorrow, I haven't totally looked at the itinerary yet but I will fill you in when I get back but it looks like some of the subjects are regarding stereotypes, paradigms we have re: men and women, made in the image of God, and what MCC is doing worldwide and within Haiti at the moment. So I am really looking forward to meeting up with others, and it feels like one of the last Spanish tests I will have to go through (we shall see how I do...you will be able to tell by the summary of the meetings in the next blog update). And then...I am going to check out the east coast of Honduras....also known as the caribbean. A few other MCCers convinced me (with much difficulty) that since I am so close, I should check out Roatan Island....and so I am going to do just that :) Definitely looking forward to it, it will be a quick trip for sure (only a couple of days), but great. Hoping to do some scuba diving as well while I am there.
The last month has gone really well with work and family. I was able to take some of the older kids out to Toy Story 3 which was hilarious, and it's always fun watching kids in the theater. One of the little guys Wilfredo got super scared during one part (Large flying stuffed pig) and hid his face in my shoulder (is it bad that I found it funny?) After the movie, we went for ice cream which they of course LOVED. I was also able to give a capacitacion, which is pretty much just an education session for the ladies who look after the kids. I covered some of the things I have been doing with the kids as well as things I hope they continue to do with them when I leave. Things like positioning the kids, stimulation, using the wheelchairs properly etc. Overall it went well but unfortunately we didn't have too great of a turnout due to some lack of communication but nonetheless. Now I am working on putting together a little info pack on therapy, working with the kids etc. so that when next year's volunteer comes she won't have to start from scratch and hopefully we can get some continuity. It is in Spanish, so copy and paste have definately come in handy in putting it together :)
OH! and I had my birthday as well. It was a little different....a little lonely actually. Kind of a mis-communication with my family/ slash they had to go to church in the evening to another community and didn't get home until 1030pm...so I was a little bit disappointed, although there was a HUGE cake, and I spent the evening playing a card game with my little bro Cristofer, so really I have no reason to complain. Plus I was able to talk with some family and friends back home and open a couple gift packages which is always a delight! The next day I went to the Holiday Inn for a breakfast buffet with my mom and then we went out to Huembus market to do a little shopping.....needless to say I think I got my money's worth.
The next week was followed by ANOTHER buffet for father's day. I bought a membership at the Holiday Inn to use their pool, anyways, it comes with a few perks, so off we went for lunch. Father's Day is the 23rd here, but we went this past Friday which was great. It was also great to spend time with my dad because usually we don't get to do as much together, and I think he really appreciated it as well.
So, time is winding down, I have no idea when I will be back and no idea what is waiting for me back home in Canada. But I am definitely conscious of each moment here and so appreciative of the people God has put in my life here. When I get back from Honduras I will only have about a week to work, spend time with my family and do a couple last minute things. Oh and I have a date....with my cousin. If you invite somebody here, you have to pay. So I think I explained earlier on in my blogs that I sometimes am paying to have friends because if you want to go to a movie....you pay for everyone. Anyways, I went with my brothers and cousins to a movie awhile ago...and now he wants to take me out, so he told me he now has two weeks to save so that he can take me out when I get back from Honduras. Now that my friends, is a good date ;)
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