Monday September 10/12 update
Last night the hamburgers at Bettye and Chris’ were
scrumptious, and I even got to take one home.
I got to see the two lovely wall figurines that they now have installed
at both ends of their couch in the living room.
They are a great addition and Bettye has very good taste.
I dallied a little too long and then found that all the
buses that go to our area weren’t running near Feria Libre so I grabbed a #28
and soon realized it was not going downtown but headed straight south. So I stayed on it until it neared Coral
Centro where I was sure there would be taxis.
I easily hailed a yellow cab and instructed him to continue a few blocks
to the Autopista and zoom down to our area.
That is a really quick way home.
Today I did some laundry and mulled over some options for
the Amigos Activity Center
I walked to Coopera to get my weekly allowance and waited to
catch the #16 across from the new Community Police Station which had their
ribbon-cutting last Friday. I am
thinking that I should go register us there somehow so they will know who we
are and where we live.
We arrived at the school not only to find no teachers, but
no Miguel, so we had no interpreter if necessary.
One bright spot is that there were several used desks in the room. Soon the children started coming in and went
to the white board and started writing the months in both Spanish and English,
getting most of them right. They are
such delightful kids and that is the reason we continue to help. Believe me, just getting a smile from one of
the shy little ones makes my day and melts my heart. Then they played with my translator and thought that was pretty neat. The
kids piled into the old desks, three abreast, with no complaints whatever. Linda and Tom brought an activity for the
kids to complete and color while we all helped the kids out. Christine conversed with Patricio about his
plan to sand and paint the desks.
Christine’s idea of painting them all a base white color won the day, so
that it can be an activity for the kids to decorate the desks later.
Just as class was winding up, Miguel showed up so things
lasted a lot longer. Then Emilie
(originally from Guelph )
from Hearts Of Gold stopped by and gave us more ideas. Then
they wanted us to look at a place down the street that had more rooms, and
maybe a yard available to us. It needs a
lot of work and it is hard to pin down Miguel on who is going to end up paying
for all this. He vaguely refers to the
community people but we are not so sure.
I took a few shot of various kids today, even street kids,
and it is so heartwarming to hear their giggles when I show them their
pictures. Gotta love the
Cuencanos.
Emilie walked with me to Feria Libre where we each caught
buses going different directions. I
found it hard to believe that she had never been on the grounds of Feria Libre
and she was so surprised to see all the live animals for sale there.
I got off the bus at the Monay Mall and went to La Victoria to price out a
projector for the school. Emilie had
thought that we might see one under $200 but the ones on display were closer to
$600. We feel now that a projector is
the thing to get for the school because, even without Internet, we could hook
up out laptops and play some previously downloaded material right on a blank
wall. That would make our lives so much
easier.
Walking over our bridge I noted the river is as low as
ever. We really could use a good
overnight rain.
That was today’s excitement. Please see all photos at souvenircuenca.blogspot.com. Hugs to all.
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