Back in Action

My parents and I made it safely to Pacasmayo.  The most dangerous part of the arrival was when we had a herd of kids rush the van as soon as we pulled through the front gate.  It was just as great to see everyone as I had imagined.  Lots of hugs and high fives all around. 

I started my shift right off the bat.  Gina, the house mom of the boy,s has been working 24 hours a day 6 days a week for the past year and a half, so I figured that while I'm here I will make sure she gets some much needed time with her own kids.  In order to do that I'm taking the night shift,  I'm working in the boys house from 8:00 at night till 11:00 in the morning. Don't worry it's a lot easier than it sounds and I am really enjoying it.  I come in around 8:00 and since its summer vacation we all stay up till about 11:00 watching movies or playing cards or board games then we all wake up around 8:00, I make breakfast they do their chores then send them outside.  Ya, thats right, I make breakfast for all 11 of us.  Today I got the kids in a little bit of trouble because I sent them outside before they finished all their chores (hey they told me they were done) and when Gina got back at 11:00 she got on to them for not doing them all.

Another funny tangent here, after about 30 minutes back on my first day I was playing soccer with the kids (by the way don't ever play soccer barefoot on concrete when you haven't been doing it in a while or you get some badly bruised feet) Aurellio who is one of the guards came up to me and asked me how to pay for a shipment of bricks they just got in.  30 minutes here and it's like I never left, haha.

Yesterday we took all the kids to the beach.  There is another volunteer here, Samantha, whose mom and brother were visiting.  Friday was their last day so we figured it would be fun to get all the kids down to the ocean.  I brought a surfboard but didn't get too much surfing in as I was busy pushing kids on it through some little waves.  My parents and I are also taking all the kids out to eat in the evenings on rotation.  Thursday night was the older boys, last night was the older girls, tonight is the younger boys and tomorrow probably the younger girls.  

Monday is my meeting with another orphanage in Trujillo.  We are going to talk a little more in depth about a proposed job opening for me there.  I'll let everyone know how it goes.

Also, I'd post pictures but my mom has almost all the pictures on her camera because I was in the water all day yesterday.  When I get a little bit more free time I'll get the pictures from her and put some up here.  The internet is kind of slow as well so that's making it hard to post stuff.