Friday

Friday was a great day! It was teacher appreciation day so the kids at school had a party for all the teachers. They gave them all gifts, I got a pair of socks and a matching handkerchief haha. They then sang us a couple songs and performed some skits they had been secretly working on. After that they just played a bunch of games for the rest of the school day.

Fred and I decided a couple days ago that we are going to have the boys start doing more "man" work around the orphanage. So Friday was the first day. When I told the boys that we would be doing this some of them were excited (Cristopher, the twins, and Jose) while others were mad and pouted (Gerson, Yhonson, Joel). However, they were all going to do it just the same. So yesterday after they ate lunch we brought them outside and explained to them exactly what we were going to do. They were going to learn how to take care of the yard, paint, and do stucco. So here are a few pictures from the first yardwork day.

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Lenin (Pronounced Lenny)

Jonell (Pronounced Yo-nell)

Fred, Jose, and JoelJonell and Cristopher picking up grass clippings

After the yardwork, Ronal from the Pacasmayo company stopped by to give us a donation of food. Praise God! He drove in with a truckload of food. Two 100 kilo bags of rice, and a whole bunch of vegetable oil, sugar, pasta and canned milk. All this food is from his employees. At the end of every month they get paid a bonus in food. So all the food you see on the table in this picture plus 2 bags of rice was given up by families for the kids in the orphanage. Avis was so happy that she started to cry. This was the first time that anyone from the comunity had really contributed to the orphanage. If I added it all up it is around $600 worth of food. All that oil will last us hopefully an entire month and the rice is enough for 2 full weeks.

Here is the food (you can't see the rice) with me accepting the inventory sheet listing all the stuff the workers gave from Rosa (the woman who got us an in with the boss).