"I don't even know what to do with the children after I say 'hola.'"

Thursday, June 11

Today was GREAT.

There were hilarious moments.
Sad moments.
Silent moments.

We went to Argelia Alta, the church we are involved with and worked and played with kids and ate lunches and had fun with each other. One of the greatest moments that I was going to take a picture of, BUT my camera died was... well, this guy named Kevin on our team was wheel burrowing a bunch of dirt from one place to another, and the kids really wanted to help or be involved. So, he would grab the wheel burrow when it was full and say, "LISTOS!?" and all the kids would scream and then they would run up the hill to dump the dirt. Was it efficient? Not at all, but that is what was beautiful about it. It's not about doing the most work after all. So, Kevin would take the empty wheel burrow back filled with at least 10 kids in it. This process continued until we had to leave. It was REALLY great! I wish I had a picture of it.

Also, last night we all met at Adam and Sara's house again to talk about our day. It was WONDERFUL. This group makes me laugh SOO freaking hard and they make me think a lot. At one point we were talking about how the day went at Argelia Alta... everyone was talking about the kids... we were talking about how it was hard, but great it was to hold kids for a long period of time just to have 4 more kids pummel you... and then Andrew, one of the guys in the group, said, "I don't even know what to do with the children after I say 'hola'" and at that moment everyone died laughing. He said he would say 'hola' to a kid and then wonder where his or her friends were so he could say 'hola' to them too. It was hilarious.

It was also really fun when we were singing a song, but forgot the 2 verses that we had already song... thus, we just hummed the verse except for the one line that we knew.

We also visited the dump in Ecuador, but I can't go into that today... 

-emily