Oh, What a Day at Orphanage Emmanuel

Today was quite the day! I woke up extra early for big circle, and got all ready. But, since it poured most of all last night, it was too wet to have big circle in the field, so the houses had individual circles. Both Fridays I have been here, big circles has been rained out. I helped Dunia, Marisol, and Veronica amke breakfast for a team that came in last night. Bacon, sausage, biscuits, and eggs. It looked great. Me and another volunteer had toddler duty this morning. The six toddlers who are not old enough to be in preschool yet, have to sit at their dorm, if we do not take them to do something. We played with legos and play dough. They love play dough. No one knows the word for penguin in Spanish, so we have taught the toddlers to call it el penguino. It is very funny to hear them say it, and they will only cal it that, nothing else. We played in the special needs yard a little this morning. They are having soccer games right now, and are pretty much obsessed with it. Once again, I was asked to play, but I just had to turn them down. They really must find it funny to watch me play. Stephanie got in trouble for calling everyone pigs, and Pamela got in trouble for not staying in their yards. They do not get to ride horses tomorrow, which they love. They have decided this week that they are not going to listen to anyone. We ate lunch at the the orphanage restaurant. It is so good! The tortillas are the best. Jenny is back for the summer from Costa Rica. She makes the absolute best tortillas. She is going to come to the volunteer house and teach us how to make them sometime this week. Rudi also promised me that he is not going to have nay more torsollos. Hopefully, he will stick to his promise. So far, so good! He is doing alot better. I had to work the Internet Cafe this afternoon. I usually only have one girl from the orphanage who is working on her studies, but today, I had three women from town. It was quite interesting. But I managed to help them make an email address in Spanish. I feel like my Spanish is improving everyday, and I can understand most conversations and lessons in Spanish. It is much easier to communicate with the kids and get them to obey and listen. After working the Internet Cafe, I helped at the clinic. There are about half of the kids who have not had their physicals this year. The team that is here now, has some doctors and nurses who are doing the physicals. It is very time consuming, but it has to be done. It is hard to keep the children quiet and entertained while waiting for their turn. On the way back to my house, it got extremely windy. Trees were almost bent in half because of the wind. We heard a loud crash, and the roof of David and Tammy Hyatts house came off. It was not a tornado, but something of the sort. This whole evening has been spent removing everything from their house and putting it into storage. They will have to work on the roof tomorrow, but until then they have to be moved to another house. It was very scary, and everyone from the orphanage was helping. No one was hurt, just some bruises and scratches. I was on kid patrol, and was watching everyones' kids. It is finished for the night now though, and the roof will start being rebuilt tomorrow. It was an interesting day here, but their is never a dull moment. I love you all!