Fun and festivities

Well, this past weekend Jarrett and I have spend a lot of time having a lot of fun!

Last Friday Jarrett and I went to the girls high school that is run by the Salesian Sisters where our new friend Rebecca works, teaching English. She invited us to come to class that day so the girls had an opportunity to practice their English with a couple of other English speakers. It was a lot of fun, though I'm pretty sure Jarrett and I were a lot more of a hindrance and dstraction than actually helping them learn anything, but that's ok. We enjoyed talking with them, and challenging them to talk in English. We also jammed out to the song "Firework" by Katy Perry, because Rebeccah is teaching them the words to that song as another way to learn English.

Saturday was the Ecological Festival at Dulce Nombre Parish, where people from different vilalges wrote songs about the earth and praising God for the beauty of creation and nature. Well, not wanting to be left out of all the fun, Jarrett and I also wrote a song in Spanish praising God for creation, which is now on YOUTUBE. The link to our video on youtube is posted on our facebook wall, or you can just click on this link to watch it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v​=4eGrttdqjpA

Then Sunday, for the afternoon, Jarrett and I went out to play with our nieghbors! There is a group of high school girls that live with some Franciscan Sisters just a couple of houses down from where John lives, and they invited us to play soccuer with them. So we played some soccer, and then some volleyball, and then we taught them some games, including Finger Fencing and NINJA which I think they enjoyed! it was a lot of fun!

Yesterday (Monday) we went to the Hogar de San Jose, which is where the Missionaries of Charity (The order started by Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta) live and where they also have a home for malnourished children (most of whom are under 5 years old) and we got to go and play with them for a couple of hours, which was a lot of fun! I almost felt like I was back at Camp Gray again with a bunch of kids running all around (though these we all a little younger than the ones back at Camp!)

This week, Jarrett is going to the municipality of Dolores, and I am going to return to San Agustin.

Peace and God bless

Kevin (and Jarrett)