Priscilla Joy

AAAGHHH! Its July and it has already been two months since my trip. But I will finish my ‘Journal Entries’ series, so keep updated for days 4-8 in the (hopefully) near future.

So today I got up and had devotions outside in the early morning before breakfast. I had to have it in the play house because Lolo (dog) and Tigre (cat) were following me around everywhere and that is the only place where I could find some peace! Then we had breakfast and got to work.

First, we had a meeting to plan kids activities for the day. I was put in charge of games and was given (overwhelmed with) game suggestions to use. After that, some of the other teen girls and I went to tour the baby home while the other ladies measured for curtains they were going to be sewing. Next we did some small projects to get ready for the games we would be playing that day by making a bowling set using 2×4’s and dowels. Lauren (a former intern) then took some of us girls to dust and start staining the eaves around the girls and boys dorms.

After that we had lunch and siesta. In my siesta I normally read, write or lay there (I rarely nap) but that day I was pretty tired so I lay there and rested. I got up and set up for games before the kids got out of school and then hugged them when they did get out of school.

In the group of people who were helping me with games I was the only one who spoke Spanish and so I was what I like to call translator although I am not quite fluent in Spanish. Today we worked with kids (boys and girls) 3-11. We played some water relays and a version of “Mother, May I?”.

After we did organized games we just hung out with the kids and I worked on my Spanish by talking with some of my little friends Yesenia, Cristian and Alfredo. It was a nice surprise to see Alfredo since I had not seen him there on Saturday or Sunday and assumed that he wasn’t at the Ranch anymore. I spied him and asked Cristian if it was Alfredo and if he still remembered me. Cristian’s response? “Oh yes” I hope that is a good thing. 🙂

When the kids went in for dinner, David, Mikayla and I kicked the soccer ball around a little bit before our dinner. In the evening I watched the staff guys play soccer (check for a funny story about this in my Day 4 post!) and just hung out with the kids.

When the kids went to bed some of our team played cards and then I went and took a shower and went to bed. Aaahhh…… it has been a great day!

Priscilla