5-28-10

I finally slept in this morning and it was amazing. My day started at noon when my shift started at the orphanage. The kids all greeted me when I walked in and I love it because they don’t pronounce my name like in America, here is D Aña. While we ate lunch I sat with the older boys (ages 6-8) and we tried talking and it was so funny. They are so patient though and correct me often. After lunch we couldn’t go outside because they had the sprinklers running so we watched a movie. The kids picked Cinderella and it was really weird because it was English so really the kids had no clue what they were listening to at all. After the movie the College students from the Ventana ministry came and brought cupcakes for all the kids and stayed and played with them. This is their last week here in el Porvenir before going back home so it was their time to say goodbye to the kids.
A group of men came today for the weekend from California to help fix things in the orphanage and the community. Today they were working on the screened in porch at the orphanage and of course all the kids wanted to know what these men were doing so they kept getting in their way so it was my job to make sure they stayed away. I sure got my workout for the day but it was really funny because I was talking to one of the boys in Spanish telling him to stay away from the tools and not to bug the men and then I apologized to the men for something a little boy did and he looked at me and said “wow I am really impressed, you speak English very well.” I looked at him and I was very confused so I said “what did you say?” He said “where did you learn such good English?” and I just laughed not believing what I was hearing and I said “well considering I have only been in Mexico 3 days I am pretty sure I learned my English in the United States.” Everyone just laughed. The funny thing is that he thought I was fluent in Spanish which makes me feel better but I know I am the farthest thing from it. So yeah that was my day nothing to special but I feel like I am learning so much as each day goes by.