First of all the most important news is that thankfully the tumor that was removed from Lourdes did not have any cancer, praise God!
I forgot to mention a couple weeks ago that all the schools in the Libertad Province were shut down to prevent a swine flu outbreak. They shut them down for two weeks, plus the one week vacation. Currently I'm on day 11 of no school. It's been both fun and crazy with the kids not having school to occupy the greater portion of their day. The volunteers, Aimee, Rita, and Karen have been working on delousing like crazy, I've been working on some more financial spreadsheets when I'm not having fun with the kids. I've also helped out with the delousing by spraying and carrying some mattresses.
The first part of this week has been kind of a blur, so I can't really remember exactly what I did on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Sorry about that. Today there sleepover for the older girls, the house moms, Maribel and the Psycologist. What that means is that me and the Girl volunteers are watching the other kids for the night. I took the house with less kids and the girls took the other house. I kind of got lucky because one of the moms didn't want to stay up late so she came back around 10:00, so that's how I'm writing this right now. I had all the kids nice and calm and watching some looney toon cartoons that I bought earlier today, then walked in Danilo (who is the mentally handicapped crazy child) and everything just went nuts. I only had to deal with him for about 2o minutes because then the house mother came in and took over, but 20 minutes was enough for me to never want to do it again.
Now I'm getting ready to go to bed after stuffing my face with a bunch of oatmeal butterscotch cookies that Wendy (The pastors wife) made for me.
5 comments:
yes, i have a alot of respect for the house mother's and the way they handle danillo. i couldn't do it. where did you get the butterscotch chips?:) have a good day love you
ps the best part of the blog was finding out about lourdes! i am relieved.God answers prayers!
what do you mean when you say the girls spent time "delousing"? what does that mean?
Haha, it only takes one precious child to change the mood of the room! It's good to practice the patience! I was so glad to hear about Lourdes! That's awesome!
Praise God about Lourdes' tumor...incredible God! I give props to the ladies for doing the dirty work with the delousing...yikes! I bet you slept great after those cookies :)
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