I have been officially working for YouthWorks for 30 whole days! WOW! It feels like I just flew to Minneapolis and met my team for the first time yesterday. We got to know each other quickly and became close friends in what seemed like minutes! I could not ask for a better team! BUT! Enough about that, I have babbled on enough about that in previous entries!
After 3 weeks of preparation the groups FINALLY arrived! Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED having three weeks of living in Puerto Rico with my team getting everything ready and getting to know the ins and outs of programming and the people in the community, but I was SO pumped when the groups finally got here!!!
Today was the second full day and I was back at C.I.I.P.A.P. and it was great. The niños were super awesome and the youth were so helpful and excited and full of energy! I loved every minute of it! We got to hang out up at the cancha again and this time I ventured into the music room and got to watch the kids practice for an evening show they are giving for their parents. They played the Chicken Dance, THE CHICKEN DANCE! It was AWESOME! They were playing on steel drums (which are bent metal garbage cans) and it sounded so cool! These little kids playing an awesome song and they actually did really well! They are all such fast learners! They were super pumped about it too!
I loved playing with and attempting to communicate with them. I am getting better at my conversational Spanish (a little) because I am forced to actually speak it. It felt really good to translate for some of the kids there haha. But then I was had a few hard times and I had to pull over one of the little kids that was bilingual and ask them to help me out haha. Luckily there were a lot more bilingual kids there than we realized! This one little boy named Edward (pronounced Ed-Ward with a hard A) is ridiculously awesome. He had a Green Lantern ring and he was showing me some sweet moves. I just love all of these little kids… they are all so awesome! I am so pumped that I have been able to go there! I really hope that I got back again soon!
Tonight after Ministry Time we went to church with Pastora Eva and she talked about Jonah and the big fish and she had a really cool outlook on the story. I really liked how she interpreted it. She also talked about the big fish that would be waiting for all of us when we didn’t follow through with the plans that God had for us. She said a bunch of other really cool things that I can’t remember. I need to remember to take a pen and paper with me next week. After church Pastora Eva gave us all ice cream and we had some time to get to know some of the people in the church. Wonderful people. Today went so well! I am so happy with life right now. Sleep is minimal but that is to be expected, lol. The first morning I was on breakfast crew and I was up by 6:00 so that I could shower before. Then this morning I was on wake up duty so I woke up at 6:30, kids lights out is 10:45 and it is not almost 1:00AM… oops. Time for bed! Hopefully next week we get a little more sleep time because we will have more of a knack for everything. Early morning tomorrow so I should hit the sack!
PS. I never thought an air mattress could be so comfortable… when I lay down every night I just melt into it and pass right out. It is awesome, lol.
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