tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11273154992171034772024-02-02T18:15:45.248-06:00Another Pin on the Mapmy journey around the world...one country at a timeHannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.comBlogger563125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-26730352103069721452017-07-15T14:35:00.001-05:002017-07-15T14:35:41.551-05:00Madre visits Bolivia!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madre came to Bolivia this last week and we had a fabulous time together! Unfortunately she left today, but Miel and I are already waiting for her next visit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madre flew into Santa Cruz so I flew there too and we spent a day there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our first stop in Santa Cruz was Guembe Bioparque & Resort. I'd heard good reviews but wasn't really sure what it was like. It's a big hotel and park not far outside of Santa Cruz. You can pay to enter just the park area which is what we did. They had walking trails, a butterfly garden, a bird sanctuary, a monkey habitat and many other fun areas to explore. We spent a couple hours there and could've stayed longer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took this picture for Amy... Years ago when we were in Belize, there was a wagon similar to the one pictured (but much smaller) at our hotel. My mother, the photographer, insisted that Amy and I take a picture with the wagon (her pulling it and me sitting in it). Amy let go and the wagon and I flipped over. She still laughs uncontrollably about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a big area full of different kinds of parrots and some peacocks. I wanted to take a picture with these 2 parrots but as I got closer, one flew away and the other flew straight into my head!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was little, we went to a place that had butterflies and we have a picture of me holding on in my hand. As we entered this butterfly garden we were talking about how we should try to recreate the picture and then this butterfly landed on my leg... It's like he heard us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After leaving Guembe, we went to the downtown area and wandered around for the afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to Cochabamba on Saturday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Saturday, Susanne and Chelsea (two volunteers from the hogar who came back for a visit) wanted to go visit some of the kids who used to live with us. Madre and I tagged along and it was great to see them again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should've taken a better picture at church but this is all I have... My church may have been more excited about my mom's visit than I was! They were counting down the days for months!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday afternoon we met up at the water park with this sweet girl! Long-time blog readers will remember her as "Baby C." back from our hogar days... Every time I see her now I can't believe how big she's getting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Monday we went up to school so Madre could see where I work. They'd been painting the classrooms and building some new rooms and it was a bit of a disaster!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madre bought Miel a fancy new bed! She hasn't embraced it quite yet but I'm certain she will one day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madre redecorated my house while she was here. We bought furniture but it couldn't be delivered until the next day. We didn't think it'd be that bad not having furniture for just a day, but seriously... You can only sit so long on that hard tile floor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had lots of people I wanted Madre to meet and these great friends were at the top of the list! I have the best coworkers ever and we met up for dinner one night. I hadn't seen any of them since school got out so it was fun to catch-up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madre and I at dinner... Thank you Nena for the picture! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One day while going home, we passed a park with 2 super slides. Madre insisted we go back another day and ride them... They were lots of fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now begins the saga of the hammock... I have a big balcony but there wasn't any place to sit outside. We decided a hammock would be a great addition. We both thought the best place to hang the hammock would be where the clothesline had been hanging. In the above picture, that's the metal thing coming off the side of the wall on the left. First, Madre moved my clothesline so it wouldn't be in the way of putting up the hammock...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Briefly, we had a hammock... Even Miel loved it! We spent several hours outside in the hammock thinking it was the greatest thing ever. The more we sat in it, the more we thought maybe it needed to be higher up...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and then this happened! Miel and I were laying the hammock while Madre was tugging on the rope trying to get it higher. All of the sudden, the hammock with us in it came crashing down!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Finally yesterday the last piece of furniture was delivered and I have a brand new living room! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Every time I walk into my house I can't believe how great it all looks! The brown Hawaiian flowered sofa is gone (Sarah, what were we thinking?!) and it actually looks like a cute little apartment now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I last blogged two months ago... The end of school was crazy but we finished! Now I'm on vacation for a couple months but it's not really vacation as I'm tutoring every day. Not getting up early and having a more relaxed day has been nice though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've had a busy few months so lots of pictures again! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> At the end of April, B. turned 3! He was so excited that it was his birthday. We were happy to be able to celebrate that birthday with him because a couple weeks ago he moved to another children's home to be with his older siblings. We miss him but we're excited they get to be together again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes we take all the kids to church, but on this particular day the babies and tías stayed home, and I took the girls by myself... So much more relaxing just having the 4 of them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We gave this picture to Tía Silvia a couple Christmases ago after she begged and begged for a picture of us... One day I walked into the girls' bedroom and saw that they'd taken it off the fridge and hung it up on their wall. It's a nice touch, for sure!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Gymnastics all day, every day... If only I could post the videos B. took of me doing handstands and cartwheels!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On this Sunday we took EVERYONE to church. When it was time to go home, no one wanted to pay for the taxi so the tías decided we could all fit in my car... I think I was the only one who got a comfortable ride that day! I think we had 14 people crammed in there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> At the beginning of May we began our count-down to go to 1st grade... The kids LOVED it and from the second they walked in in the morning they were asking whose turn it was to take off a ring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes when one of my kids would get mad, he would tell me that he hated me and that I'm the worst teacher in the whole world (other days he told me he loved me and that he was my son so who really knows how he felt!). One day I told him that I was sure he didn't really mean what he said so he needed to write "I love Ms. Hannah" on the board. He reluctantly did so. Pretty soon they were all asking to write it... Not much of a punishment any more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> S. and B. are obsessed with the group Tercer Cielo so when Sarah and I heard they were giving a free concert earlier this month, we knew we had to take the girls! Through some connections we were invited to meet them at the airport when they arrived and then we were given VIP wristbands to sit up close at the concert. The girls were so excited but then so shy when we were actually at the airport!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This picture made me laugh because I feel as if I'm looking at my future getting my kids ready in the morning. It was taken one day by B., who was begging me to buy her a cell phone for her upcoming 10th birthday. I didn't realize she was taking pictures while we were having this conversation... In case you're wondering, I did not buy her a cell phone. Although she would argue that it's not true, she's far too young.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading the encyclopedia for his first book seems like a lofty goal to me...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy 10th birthday, B.!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Mother's Day is on May 27th. At church, some of the kids' classes put on a little program for the moms. Before A.'s class began singing, they were asked to tell their mom's name. I cringed a little (Mother's Day is so hard for our kids and questions like this are never easy for them to answer) but when it was her turn she loudly proclaimed "Her name is Tía Hannah!" and everyone let out a collective "Awww." I'm so lucky to be the one she calls "Mami!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> May 29th marked 4 years in Bolivia... Can't believe it's already been that long!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The kids' school had a dance festival at the end of May. My school also had one, and can I just say, I was once again reminded how wonderful it is to be the parent at these events instead of the teacher. Seriously, it's so much more enjoyable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">B. is in 5th grade and his class did this cool dance with ribbons. It almost reminded me of the May Pole dance we did in 4th grade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We made it! Kinder graduation with some of the best :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Probably not the safest activity (they found random pieces of food and put them together) but who am I to stop their imaginative play!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Celebrating Sarah's birthday with our favorite son/nephew! While she'll always be the real favorite, he's decided I'm not so bad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The past couple days I've had A. and J. staying over at my house. We had to make a stop at the grocery store and A. begged for strawberries. That night they both ate them dipped in mayo (meant for their chicken)... sounds yummy, doesn't it?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A. is OBSESSED with Miel and made sure to bring all of her toys to her bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're my friend on Facebook then you might have already seen this picture... At lunch yesterday, I made pasta that had mushrooms mixed into it. J. ate it all but A. complained about "those little brown things" from the moment she saw the plate and refused to eat any food with mushrooms. Yesterday evening, I made pancakes for them for dinner and it would appear that when "little brown things" are chocolate chips, suddenly they're edible!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the rate I'm going with blogging, the next post will be after school has started again... If I don't blog again before then, hope all of y'all up north are enjoying your summer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> There's a new food court in Cochabamba with a restaurant called Louisiana Fried Chicken... Obviously I felt obligated to try it. As the paper plate and name suggests, they serve fried chicken and fish & chips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> On March 19th, we celebrated Father's Day. It happened to be on a Sunday and our church had all sorts of presentations that the kids put on for their dads. It can be a hard holiday for our kids at Sunshine House, but our church does such a great job with our kids... and they have many beloved father figures at church! O.'s dad has been working on his family reinsertion for several months now and joins us at church each week, and it was special that he and O. were able to spend time together on that day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Miel has a bad habit of eating things she shouldn't, and one day while I was at work she chewed on some clothes. She got super sick and the vet requested an x-ray because he thought she had an intestinal blockage. The place he sent us to for the x-ray is in the far side of the city and I really had no idea how to get there. We had 40 minutes before they closed and I thought we made it just in time... Until we arrived and it was locked up! Luckily the x-ray tech was on his way back and we didn't have to wait very long. To make a long story short, she ended up being just fine!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Celebratory dinner at our favorite restaurant- I passed my Bolivian citizenship test and Sarah started the adoption process!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Showed up at Sunshine House before church a couple weeks ago and realized my girls and I were matching!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Dyeing Easter eggs at school... We didn't quite get to that at Sunshine House before today, so I've promised the kids we'll do it next weekend... Better late than never!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a visitor to our class... He's a turtle and his name is Rayo Veloz. He was very quiet and a good listener... and a good example to his owner :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my kinder kids gave me this "wedding ring" and said "I made it because you're getting married!" ...Does she know something I don't?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> B. insisted on using this glass to drink her juice. She was pretending to serve everyone communion with it before she dropped it and it shattered everywhere... Oops!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While on the subject of B., this picture was also taken after her first performance as "Marcelita" in our church's evangelism drama "Jesus is my Superhero." She's been practicing for awhile now and was SO nervous! She really did well, although she thinks it was awful and that she needs to practice more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> On April 12th, we celebrated "Children's Day." Many people were very generous to our kids at Sunshine House and they had parties all week long. This cake and goodie bags were donated by Tigo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> There's nothing quite like the chaos of a Children's Day parade! Also, can I just say that it's so much more enjoyable playing "mom" at the parade instead of "teacher"?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Tía Patty said "I can't feed them real calamari so this is as close as I can get!" Needless to say, the kids LOVED their lunch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our twins went back HOME with their mom in what had to be the happiest reunion I've ever seen! She couldn't stop smiling and was SO excited to take them home! They went home on Children's Day... what better day than that?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The tías had a morning workshop last week and a couple volunteers and I were in charge of the kids... Clearly O. was having too much fun with us ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> On Thursday, everyone took kids home for the long weekend... I got A.! You can't tell in the picture, but she was asleep about 2 minutes after we left the hogar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> First stop was the grocery store... I had no food at my house for her! She loved riding in the cart and picking out food for us to eat... something she NEVER gets to do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Last year on Good Friday, Sarah, her mom and I took kids to the water park. This year on Good Friday, we met up with Sarah and the 2 she had for the weekend and Rachel, Gabby and Benjamin (former CDA volunteers- recognize those 2?) at a different park... I think it's becoming tradition! The kids had a fun afternoon swimming and playing together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't post about A. staying with me and not also post about her obsession with my dog! It was very mutual... I don't know if she or Miel was more excited about our temporary living arrangements! Initially I was a little worried she'd be lonely as there aren't other kids at my house, but Miel was a great playmate for her. She carried her everywhere (Miel's paws barely touched the floor!), blew bubbles for her, took her on a walk around the apartment, watched movies with her, and cried when she told her goodbye. At night, as she laid in bed, I could hear her quietly snapping her fingers and calling Miel's name so Miel would jump off my bed and lay with her. While eating, I gave her strict instructions not to give her food to Miel, but she tried sneaking it to her anyway. Then she'd pat her leg so Miel would jump up before saying "Miel is bothering me. She jumped up here all by herself!" They were quite the pair!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish I had more pictures from today but I realized after church that I hadn't taken a single picture of the kids. Our church doesn't really celebrate Easter so there wasn't much to take pictures of. On Friday night, they played the Passion of the Christ movie in the park, so A. and I went to watch it. Other than that, Easter was barely mentioned today (It's more of a Catholic holiday here... Evangelical churches don't seem to do much for it). I bought chocolate eggs for the kids and then accidentally left them at my house so I told them we'll dye Easter eggs and eat chocolate next weekend... Hopefully I'll be better about taking pictures then!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First of all, can I just say how embarrassed I am that over TWO MONTHS has passed and I have yet to blog even a single time?! I used to blog almost every other day... I don't know what's happened! Well, I do- school has happened, that's what! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In my last blog post, I wrote that it was time to renew my visa... I came here on a tourist visa, have had residency visas for the last 3 years, and now it's time for citizenship! Part of that process involves an exam on Bolivian history... I've attempted to take the test twice now and have been turned down both times... Maybe 3rd times the charm?! Pray for me on March 24th... the day I *think* I might actually be able to take the test!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> A new mall has opened up in Cochabamba with an ice cream shop that makes the ice cream right there on a cold plate in front of you... It's my favorite!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Back in January we celebrated 100 days of school... It was quite the celebration! As you can see, we wrote 100 words (a big feat for a class full of ELL students!) and we also counted out 100 snacks, dressed up as 100 year olds, sang a song about the 100th day of school and we paraded around the school to congratulate everyone on becoming 100 days smarter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> One of my boys likes to leave me notes on the board. When I asked what this note meant, he said "I love you all the way to the number 21!" When I asked what was so special about the number 21, he said the numbers on our wall only go up to 20 so "number 21 is a really super big number!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> We practice reading sentences with our sight words and vocabulary words almost every day. I'm always the one to write the sentences, but one day a couple of my kids asked if they could draw on the board. Being the good teacher I am, I told them they had to write me something on the board first... This overachiever wrote me a whole sentence!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have maybe not been the most responsible dog owner as far as vaccinations are concerned, but you better believe Miel was getting spayed... No way do we need puppies running around! I didn't have a cone for her to wear but with the quantity of baby clothes at my house, these pjs worked just fine to keep her from messing with the incision!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Edson turned 5 and requested a dinosaur cake... His mother (Sarah) took charge of that party and went all out with dinosaur figurines and masks for the kids to wear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I know I've mentioned before that we now take EVERYONE to church... so 20+ people usually a week. In the past, Sarah and I would go to the hogar early, change the kids who were going with us and then leave. Now that there's so many more to get ready, we've given up on bringing cute clothes and fixing their hair in cute little hairstyles and bows and instead, let the tías get them dressed in the morning and then we deal with changing a few of our favorites or the kids who really just look horrific in their outfit choices. A few weeks ago, it was a little chilly outside. We knew the kids would be bundled up and decided to let the tías have at it with the twins. They brought them out in these matching head-to-toe knit outfits. I itched just looking at them! Of course Sarah and I burst out laughing which I think the tías took as approval of the outfits. We were getting too much entertainment out of the outfits to change the boys, and they looked so ridiculous but everyone at our Bolivian church LOVED the outfits! Someone even asked Sarah if they dressed up so nice because it was their birthday... haha!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Lindsey's mom came to visit a couple weeks ago and brought me a king cake from their bakery... It was SO good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> While on the subject of food... A couple weeks ago, the tías taught us how to make tawa tawas and cheese empanadas for snack!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The girls are loving going to evangelize in the plaza with our church... Four year old A. knows all the moves to this "Jesus is my Superhero!" dance and does it right alongside them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> During the Carnaval vacation, we took all the kids and tías from Sunshine House up to the Cristo! Tía Patty's husband drove us in the trufi so there was no waiting in long lines for the cable cars or hiking up the mountain... Driving up is the way to go!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> After our big outing to the Cristo, Sarah and I stopped by my house before heading to Lindsey's house... I don't know what happened but my car alarm started going off and continued going off for about 45 minutes. Oh the embarrassment... The car locked up and some random neighbors tried to help us turn it off. It was not working at all and they finally decided to push my car into the garage and then they cut the cable so it would stop. I took it to the shop the next day and they replaced the alarm... Luckily, as I've been convinced it had never really worked right since I got the car!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Playing with water in the rain during the Carnival holidays... Don't mistake this picture as us actually celebrating Carnival though- we're not heathens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">9 year old B. was BEGGING to play in water and then I said "Why don't we buy foam too and you can really have fun?!" With the most shocked expression, she said "Tía Hannah, that's like celebrating Carnival!" My response was "Well, you do want us to buy you a water gun during Carnival... I think you're already kind of doing it." She insisted that was not the case and then after playing in water, asked again "We didn't really celebrate Carnival, did we?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Got to start the babies early on learning numbers and letters so they'll be sort of prepared for pre-kinder in a few years...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> After far too many months of not having a working stove, Pastor Fernando got it fixed for me a couple months ago. My mother was completely distressed at the thought of me possibly having a gas leak and not knowing it, so she decided to send me a smoke and carbon monoxide detector... When it finally arrived, it wasn't allowed out of customs... $40 later, I finally got the package. Not bitter at all...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Yesterday was the long-awaited day of Tía Savannah's wedding! The girls were dying to go, especially after hearing that 5 of their former tías went, but unfortunately as the wedding was in the USA, that just wasn't possible. Sarah and I told them we'd have our own celebration so we took them to the pool and out to dinner... After a very fun afternoon, all were asleep within minutes of getting into the taxi to head back home!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Next time two months has gone by without a blog, please message me so you don't have to suffer through such a long post again ;)</span>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-91413339725428075542017-01-08T14:17:00.001-06:002017-01-08T14:17:44.289-06:00Christmas Break<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been on Christmas break for the past 3 weeks. We go back to work tomorrow, and I'm not sure that I'm ready... I've spent almost every day at the hogar which hasn't happened in far too long. When I'm there I'm always reminded how much I miss it. It was fun spending so much time with the kids, and as you can see in the pictures, we really stayed busy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sarah bought these alphabet/number puzzles for our pre-schoolers. They did well putting the letters into their places, but we still need to work on the order of the alphabet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just another reason that Tío Edwin will always be the favorite... Before Christmas, S.'s Sunday School class had to practice for the Christmas program at church. Each time, B. tagged along and finally got herself a part in S.'s class's play. One day we got to practice early, and Tío Edwin was there too. He offered to take the girls around the block on his motorcycle while we waited. I think I've heard about their motorcycle ride every single time I've seen them since that day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did our big Christmas celebration with the kids on Christmas Eve, so on Christmas Day, we just went to church with them in the morning. That evening, Sarah and I went out to dinner (no way were we cooking after the massive feast we cooked just the night before!) and on our walk to get a trufi, we saw this polar bear on the Recoleta!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">E. got his finger shut in a door outside and it started swelling up. It got infected and he was put in the hospital for a few days between Christmas and New Years. Luckily his "mother" Sarah stayed with him, but I did go visit one morning. This picture of his finger was taken his first morning in the hospital. They drained it later in the week... I know, disgusting. It still has a little healing to do, but overall, it looks pretty good now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A. is such a diva! The other day she was keeping me company while I organized her clothes. She found that little purse and then put on my boots... She thought she was hot stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It's a tradition here to eat 12 grapes at midnight on New Years Eve. We pretended that 11pm was actually midnight and let the kids go outside to play with sparklers and then come in for grapes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New Years Eve with some of our favorite tías!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> On New Years Day, our church was celebrating their anniversary (20 years, maybe?). They had a dinner that night, and Sarah and I had planned on taking our older kids. She ended up sick that day, so I took the oldest 3. They had a great time! While the whole celebration began at 7:30pm, dinner didn't actually start until 10pm and we didn't make it home until midnight. All 3 fell asleep on the way home!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some afternoons we tried to do some educational activities with the kids... A. is 4 years old and will be starting pre-school in February. She joined our soon-to-be kindergarteners in some math activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I. can now smile when you ask him too, and it's so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> B. (middle) has been begging me for months to take her to our church's evangelism in the park. Out of pure laziness, I never took her. When she heard there was evangelism the day after New Years, she said I had no excuse because I wasn't working... Couldn't argue with that! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Evangelism basically consists of a group from our church putting on 6-7 dramas about different themes (relying on God, relationships, drugs/AIDS, etc.) for a wide variety of audiences. When the dramas are over, everyone who was watching is given a snack and then people from our church pass out some Christian literature and talk to them about Christianity/invite them to our church. It was my first time to go, and it was an interesting experience for sure. That kind of evangelism doesn't work well in the States, but it works SO well here. As you can see, that is just part of the crowd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> While most days I was at Sunshine House for lunch, some days I was running around the city... and that always meant ice cream for lunch :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> My 2 year visa ends in March which means it's time to start paperwork all over again... I would say trámites (paperwork) is never-ending in Bolivia, but the end may finally be in sight- I want to get Bolivian citizenship!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> S. and B. have been working on making lots of earrings and bracelets with one of their tías. One afternoon, B. sat with me for hours and taught me how to make earrings. She was a bit bossy when explaining how they had to be made and didn't like my final product on many occasions, but mine did actually make it up onto their display board. Cochabamba friends- they're selling earrings for 2-3bs/pair... Let me know if you'd like to buy any!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Just now realizing I didn't post a picture of Miel, but this is her favorite toy. My mom sent it to her for Christmas... It squeaked and she was scared of it. When she finally got over her fear, she tore it apart. Now she just carries around the ripped up toy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> These girls were in desperate need of haircuts. One of our tías is also a hair stylist and has a friend who has been wanting to help Sunshine House. He offered to give us a discount if we took the kids to him. It seemed like the perfect opportunity, so yesterday, I took B. and S. for haircuts. This outing also involved piercing B.'s ears, but I forgot to take a picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Poor A. had her head shaved last March. Her hair has grown back so, so, so slowly. Yesterday when I was taking the girls to get haircuts, Tía Milenka gave our toddlers haircuts. When she finished, we decided to see what she could do with A.'s hair. It was starting to look a little bit like a mullet. She wanted to give her a haircut called a "mushroom" that sounded a lot like a bowl cut. I was not going to let that happen and talked her into cutting A.'s hair to her ears. Her hair still has a ways to grow, but at least it's almost all one length...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Taking the kids out for haircuts used to be the worst form of torture... Now that Tía Milenka cuts their hair in the kitchen, everyone is happy! They sit by themselves, no crying and they sit still enough to actually let her cut it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> B. is quite the character! The babies were given these play mats for Christmas, and she decided to test it out first. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This very same day, I overheard the following conversation between her and a volunteer (background: B. was baptized this past August and loves to talk about God/her beliefs):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">B. Well, that's not a very good reason. You don't have to be Catholic just because your family is. I'm Christian because I believe in God and I love Him. I didn't choose to be a Christian just because my tías are Christians."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She spent many afternoons over these past few weeks talking about God to all of us... She really thinks about Him a lot and asks us our opinion on different things and also what the Bible says in relation to different issues. She looks for opportunities to share her faith (that's why she so badly wanted to go to evangelism) with others. She's been maturing so much lately, and although she still very much has her moments (she can be a little too sassy sometimes!), she's a lot of fun to be around!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This marks my 3rd Christmas in Bolivia (the first Christmas I was back in the States), and also probably the best Christmas yet! We've developed some of our own traditions and now the big kids are starting to remember them and look forward to the Christmas season as much as we do. As you can see, we've been busy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One evening, we loaded up all the older children and went to the Christmas carols service at the International Church. When it was over, we walked to a plaza just a couple blocks away to look at their Christmas lights. Our kids LOVE looking at Christmas lights!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another night, we went to a Christmas party put on by a board member's family. It was rainy and cool outside but our kids were super excited to go out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of our favorite traditions is going to the Prado to see the Christmas lights and ride in Santa's sleigh. As we only have 14 kids at Sunshine House (as opposed to 30-ish in years past), we decided to take all of the kids and the tías who were working that night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As we were walking down the street, E. and A. (both 4 years old) started screaming "Cockroach! Cockroach!" upon seeing Pikachu. Can you tell they don't watch much tv?! It was too funny!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mine and Sarah's project now that we're both on Christmas break has been to organize the storage closet. It's been quite a job so far, and we still have a long way to go! This is just one wall of the bags of clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two days ago we celebrated M.'s 5th birthday! He was just 1.5 years old when I arrived and it's hard to believe how much he's grown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The night of M.'s birthday, a church group came over and threw a Christmas party for the staff. It's rare that everyone is together at once, and it's always a fun time! Tía Patty (green shirt on the right) did a great job on the food!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Bolivia, big Christmas celebrations take place on Christmas Eve. Sarah and I decided that we would cook a Christmas dinner for the kids and tías who were working that night. Now, anyone who knows Sarah and I probably also knows that we don't cook much. After buying all the ingredients and setting them out on the counter we worried it was a bit of a lofty goal...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We put several of the kids to work, making lemonade, cutting up veggies, etc. Eleven year old S. really wanted to help so we put her in charge of making a salad. She was so proud of herself when she finished!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Miel likes going to the hogar to spend time with the kids, but she got car sick on the way there yesterday so her trips may be very limited nowadays!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Are you as shocked as I am that Sarah and I actually pulled all this off?! We're missing beets, bread, and salad in the picture and we didn't take pics of the dessert. On the menu: chicken, stuffing (half eaten before dinner even started), green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, roasted potatoes, boiled veggies, roasted veggies with honey, yorkshire pudding, bread, beets, and salad. It was like a real Christmas dinner! We're so proud of ourselves and think that maybe we can handle doing it again next Christmas! Also, after cooking such a feast, the tías have officially approved us for marriage... What an honor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They finally put up the Christmas tree yesterday afternoon, and within the first hour of it being up, the toddlers had knocked it over at least 5 times. Sarah took this picture before bedtime last night... Her 2 "hijos" in their matching pjs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Christmas is also O.'s birthday- Today he turns 2! His dad always visits on Sundays and after church, we celebrated with this fancy cake!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These three celebrated their first Christmas today! How cute did they look for church?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Luke 2:10-11, But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, I bring you good news of great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We hope your Christmas has been as merry as ours has been! From all of us to you, Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This month our school had a Walk-a-Thon. Everyone finds sponsors to pay for each kilometer they walk, and this year the money will be donated to a nearby orphanage (where some of our former Sunshine House kids were transferred over the summer!) and the Bolivian equivalent of a Title 1 school nearby our school. We had a poster contest and my class won 2nd place in the pre-school division... I've been told our win gives us a popcorn party! (The blurry parts are where I blurred out my kids' names next to their footprints.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The school year is coming to an end for the Bolivian public schools, and our pre-schoolers at Sunshine House had an end-of-the-year exam. Sarah and I were in charge of helping them study one Saturday morning and it was a bit of a disaster. They don't know how to count to 10, barely know shapes, colors and body parts and can't identify the vowels (well, except maybe E. who sings a catchy tune when he names the vowels...). I never heard how they did but I can't imagine they did well. Students aren't allowed to fail here, so even though they'll be moved up to kindergarten, they've got their work cut out for them during vacation... We've got to study!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A few weeks ago we took our older kids to Aldea SOS to visit our kids who were transferred there. We always enjoy our visits and so do the kids!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> For several Sundays in a row, S.'s Sunday School teacher asked me if she could stay a little longer and practice a song her class was learning. I always stayed behind with her and no one could ever really tell me why they were learning this song... Come to find out, they were participating in our church's talent show! As several of our tías go to our church, when they found out that S. would be in the talent show, they decided that we ALL needed to go to the talent show (I'd assumed that for ease, I'd just take S. and her sister, B.)! After getting permission to take all the babies with us, we got them all ready for bed (it didn't start until 7:30pm) and headed over to church... Apparently no one told the tías that O.'s tiger "pajamas" is actually supposed to be worn as a costume?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> B. used to be SO scared of going to church but now he loves it! He always raises his hand in the air or claps along to the music and he's even started going to his Sunday School class!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We celebrated 2 birthdays this month! S. (not pictured) turned 11 years old, and A. turned 4 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Miel had her first real vet check-up since I got her... She got a shot and has been told she needs to fatten up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know that this actually counts as "decorating for Christmas" if it's all I've done so far, but I put up my little tree the other day... Now I need to psyche myself up to go to La Cancha to get a big tree for the living room!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> S. LOVES the babies and this morning offered to help me bathe the "triplets" before church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can't say it enough- our church loves our kids so well! This morning, Pastor Fernando held both his own grandson (on his other knee... you can't see him in the picture) and our O. during the children's worship time. Both boys were smiling so big! All of our church friends don't hesitate to grab a toddler and love them like their own :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today is a holiday (Todos Santos/All Saints Day) here in Cochabamba. While most have the day off, working at an hogar doesn't really allow that... After all, our kids need to be cared for 24/7! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A group of tías came in and then we had a steady stream of volunteers all day. It was great because we wanted to take our annual Nativity picture (sneak peak below!) so we had a lot of help to get kids changed into their costumes and to look at the camera! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This afternoon, we let the kids play dress-up with some other costumes we had, and thanks to a generous candy donation (if you're reading this, you know who you are!), we had a candy hunt for everyone outside this afternoon... Our kids loved it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I normally don't go to the hogar during the week, but I had to make a special exception yesterday ;) I didn't have school today (Wednesday) and it's also Tía Silvia's birthday! She wasn't working today so I took over a cake and we celebrated last night. Her (Our) favorite birthday tradition is to put eggs and flour in the birthday person's hair, but I didn't plan on doing it to her as I always end up covered in it too. Nine year old B. did it for us and by some miracle, she didn't crack eggs on our heads later!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Time for some sneak peaks of our Nativity picture! Surely there was a llama at the inn...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Chicken, angel and llama... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When baby Jesus was crying, Joseph turned to Mary and said, "That's your baby. Make him stop crying!" It was too funny!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Always clothes to be washed and hung out to dry! S. was taking a break from pictures to help with laundry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ready, set, go! Off to find candy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's hard to see, but the yard is full of candy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> After the toddlers woke up from their naps, they got to hunt candy too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">B. had a hard time waking up from his nap, but when he heard there was candy to be eaten, he was a little more willing to get out of bed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Sometimes when my kids finish their work, I let them play with unifix cubes. If we have time, sometimes we do "show and tell" and they tell the class about what they made. Other times they just show me what they made. On this day, one of my kids handed me this creation and said "Look Miss Hannah! I made you. I didn't have enough blocks so you only have arms to your elbows."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Our tías at Sunshine House are the best! Here's Tía Milenka helping B. with homework while letting J. sleep in the aguayo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kids love these little egg-shaped gummy/jello candies... They look so gross!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple weeks ago, our church had a big fundraiser lunch for the end-of-the-year mission trip. Sarah and I were asked to bring dessert. I still don't have a working oven so I went over to her house so make the cookies... It took so long and there were so many cookies at the end. Not that we complained... We kept plenty of cookies for ourselves and took the rest to church with us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weekends are filled with planning for school, and this month, we had to turn in grades and comments for reports cards... Hard to believe 1st quarter is already over!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> My school has a big fundraiser called the International Fair. Each class picks a country to study and then on the day of the Fair, everyone sets up a booth representing their country and they sell typical food. In pre-school, we each studied a department in Bolivia instead of a country. My class studied Pando... For your enjoyment, the facts we learned:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pando is a department located in the north of Bolivia. The capital is Cobija. Typical foods include sonso and empanada de charque (both pictured above) as well as patasca de cerdo. There are many popular places to visiting including Las Cachuelas, El Monte Alto and El Río Tahuamanu (spelling is probably way off...).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the other kinder classes studied a department in Bolivia known for their many flowers... They used tons of flowers to decorate their booth and when it was over, we all got to take some flowers home with us. They were so pretty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today Miel got to tag along with me to the hogar. I took her once before and several of the kids have been asking when I'll bring her back... I figured today was a good day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A. "washing" her baby with dirt... When bath time was over and she took her out of the bucket, she seemed shocked at how dirty the baby still was! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Not sure what M. was trying to do but all of the sudden I heard him start to cry and when I looked over he was hanging from the stairs of the slide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">S. drew this picture of Miel... I thought it was an interesting representation of her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Miel needs to be a therapy dog... She was SO good for the kids and all the things they did to her this afternoon. Poor thing was worn out though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A.M. celebrated her 10th birthday this week! She has had a family working toward her adoption for awhile now and they were granted visits on her birthday. They threw her a party on her birthday and we planned to celebrate with her today with ice cream sundaes. Unfortunately when we arrived to the hogar we found out that she was out with her new family. We decided to have the (melted) ice cream sundaes anyway!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today was an exciting day at Sunshine House as we celebrated not one, but TWO birthdays! Both B. and D. will be turning another year older later this week, so we had a joint Ninja Turtles party for them this afternoon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">B., especially, was so excited for the party! He was the one who requested the theme, and Sarah was in charge of putting it together... She and Lindsey made a Ninja Turtle cake and cupcakes and Sarah made masks for everyone. The kids loved them! I took tons of cute pictures but unfortunately can't post any of them as they show the kids' faces... Here are a few that we can post... :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> D. taking a couple phone calls before the party began as after he was too busy to be bothered with phone calls ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> B. opening up his presents- a Ninja Turtle figurine and costume</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Their cake and cupcakes were so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> B. was happy to partake in the Bolivian tradition of biting the cake and his siblings were happy to help him take that bite!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> D. sneaking some cake after everyone finished eating!</span></div>
Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-23944047285648432502016-09-24T19:41:00.002-05:002016-09-24T19:41:42.145-05:00September<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My lack of updates is embarrassing (compared to how it used to be...) but here's your once-a-month update on life in Bolivia...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September started out with one of our favorite days- Pedestrian Day! No cars or motorized vehicles are allowed on the streets and everyone goes out to walk or ride bikes... Miel and I went for a walk in the afternoon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We've all been busy with <a href="http://www.sunshinehousebolivia.com/" target="_blank">Sunshine House</a> activities this month! We've been working on some ways to raise support (both in Bolivia and abroad) and have some big things planned for next month... Let us know if you'd like to become involved in our work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the end of August, Sunshine House welcomed our first new arrivals... Twin boys! Their mom is going through some hard times and needs help with her babies. I don't want to share too much until we know for sure what will happen, but please keep her in your prayers! I will tell you, however, she loves her kids and wants to care for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I love going outside on my balcony at night to look at the city... It's not the best picture but it's the only one I've taken at night!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> As if the twins weren't enough, we received another new baby- this time a girl! While we know parts of her story, some of it is still a mystery. It looks like she will probably go back to family, but we're enjoying her for now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Sarah and I had a day off from school a few weeks ago and spent the morning cleaning out the babies' clothes... There were way too many things that don't fit anyone and were just taking up space. It was quite the project but their cabinets look so much better! I forgot to take an after picture...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> September 14th was Cochabamba's anniversary... We celebrated at school the day before (all the kinder classes danced traditional dances and we ate charque) and then had the day off. I love this city!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I could go on and on about how much we love our church! If it wasn't for them, Sunshine House wouldn't be around and our kids would have been sent away to other homes a long time ago... Several of our church friends now work at Sunshine House and others come to help out whenever there's a need... Last week our friends Boris and Berenice came over to cut our kids' hair!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Only in Bolivia do you actually need a sign telling people they aren't allowed to pee in the park... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Last weekend, Sarah, Lindsey and I were craving our favorite chicken restaurants near the old baby house... Pollo Sabroso was just as sabroso as I remembered and Sarah said the same about the alcohol shop chicken...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last Sunday, Sarah and I took 8 kids out to lunch after church. While eating, a lady at the table next to us kept watching us. After a little while, she asked where the kids were from and then gave us a donation and asked us to buy the kids a treat... Ice cream for all! I think it's really important that our kids see generosity and kindness from Bolivians and have role models who look like them, so it was a great thing for our kids to see!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Miel got her first haircut yesterday! She really needed one as last week I attempted to cut it myself and really butchered her fur... Dog grooming is clearly not in my future! Some friends from church have a vet and dog groomers, so they groomed her. Of course she received a glowing report on her behavior! And also, see what I mean about our church friends helping us with everything?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have to psych myself up for days to go to La Cancha (big open-air market in Cochabamba), but I'd say these baby costumes made the trip worth it... Have you seen a cuter mouse?! The little bear is pretty cute too and his brother has a monkey costume... Pictures of both to come another day!</span></div>
Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-66680783689358505742016-08-28T19:44:00.003-05:002016-08-28T19:44:57.634-05:00Baptism<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two of our oldest girls, who also happen to be sisters, were baptized today after church! Just over a year ago (I think... I could be way off), younger sister B. was with Danyelle and said she accepted Jesus into her heart. She hadn't been baptized yet and recently started asking about it quite a bit. She went to church with us for awhile, but over the past couple months had been going with the tía and some of the other kids to a different church. We hoped we could have her baptized one day at our church (she'd previously told us she wanted baptized there too), but to be honest, we never really looked into it much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago, Savannah arrived back to Cochabamba and Belinda talked to her about being baptized, too. Shyrlen had never told me she wanted to be baptized too, but after talking with Savannah and Pastor Fernando, it was decided that both girls would be baptized at Belén! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today was the much-awaited baptism. Most of the current tías (even a couple not working today) wanted to come as well as a few former tías who knew the girls when they were younger and all of the kids came to church with us today. It was quite the crowd for such a special event!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After church we invited a few of our friends over for lunch and to celebrate a little more. Sarah made a cake and we bought Bibles to give the girls. Everyone signed them and they received some really sweet, encouraging messages. I'm so happy we were able to be a part of such an important day for them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As many of you have already heard, Casa de Amor changed names and administration over the past couple months. We're now known as the Sunshine House! Click <a href="http://sunshinehousebolivia.com/" target="_blank">here</a> to visit our website and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunshinehousebolivia/?ref=eyJzaWQiOiIwLjE5OTIxNDc0MzIxNzQ1MzM2IiwicXMiOiJKVFZDSlRJeVUzVnVjMmhwYm1VbE1qQkliM1Z6WlNVeVF5VXlNRUp2YkdsMmFXRWxNaklsTlVRIiwiZ3YiOiJiZWUwOWY5M2ZhNzMyY2ZhNTlhMWNiNmQ5ZjQ1MGQzODkyNDI0ZTQ5In0&qsefr=1" target="_blank">here</a> to "like" us on Facebook... I've taken over child sponsorship, so please let me know if that's something you would like to be a part of... and send us your email so we can keep in touch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> At the beginning of August, I fostered a dog for a week, thinking I would adopt her at the end of the week. Sofi was the sweetest little dog when I was home, but when left alone, she had severe separation anxiety. She tried to claw and chew through doors and I was so worried leaving her home alone every day. She was physically hurting herself in attempting to not be alone. One day I came home and she had clawed the wall trying to escape. It was at that point I could no longer ignore what was going on. It was getting worse by the day. Unfortunately I had to return her to the rescue group. She needs a family that has someone home during the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Just a couple days after returning Sofi, I got a call by the director of the rescue group asking if I wanted to foster Princesa (left) and then adopt her if I wanted. I agreed and brought her home. She was such a great little dog! A couple days later, I received a call from another volunteer with the rescue group telling me about Miel (right). I ended up bringing her home for a test week too. Right now, I have both dogs. Princesa is no longer the nice, easy dog she once was (she isn't a huge fan of having Miel around), and Miel is a puppy in every sense of the word. She's super sweet and I'm planning on adopting her this coming week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> J. turned two a couple weeks ago so we had to celebrate! I wish I could post pictures of a video I took of him and his big sister A... He "bit" his cake (really we just smeared some frosting on his face after helping him bite it) and A. couldn't stop laughing when she saw him! She was almost in tears she was laughing so hard!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> One Sunday afternoon consisted of organizing almost 3 full houses of furniture. Some of it was being taken away that night so we had to decide what needed to stay and what needed to go. It was quite the task! Big thanks to Savannah and the tías who did most of the work :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> One of my students came over to me the other morning and handed me an envelope. When I opened it, I saw this note he had made me! It says "I love you Miss Hannah" and I'm assuming he wrote "Mm" because that's the letter we were practicing... My kids are too sweet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I've started tutoring four days a week after school. I brought these letter tiles back from the States with me, and they've become a big hit with my little student... One day before leaving, he asked if he could write a word "in English" that I could translate for him. He used every tile to write this massive jumble of letters... Any guesses on that translation?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tía Silvia will never fully trust us in the kitchen, no matter how long we've been here. The other night after dinner, Savannah washed the dishes. Tía Silvia hung out in the kitchen with us, but insisted she wasn't going to work as she had already finished her work for the day. Not long after Savannah left the kitchen, Silvia went over to the sink and rewashed some of the dishes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This picture isn't mine and I wasn't even there to take my own pictures, but this one is too cute not to post... Savannah set up a Sunshine House Olympics this week! Each child and tía got a shirt with their own country on it and she set up all sorts of fun games for them to play outside!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">***Make sure you come back tomorrow to read about a very special event happening at the Sunshine House this weekend!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week we finished our first week of kindergarten! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although I taught last semester, I was a little nervous about starting with a group from the beginning of the school year. I have to say, my class this year is great! This is the first year we have 3 kinder classes, and I have 20 kids on my roll (two have never come though). After 30 kids in my class last year, the room feels a bit empty as we've had 16-18 kids each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other kinder teachers are also enjoying their classes this year. We've all noticed how nice these kids are! We haven't had any name-calling or not wanting to be friends with certain kids, and they have been listening pretty well, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other than the 5:30am wakeup, it's been nice getting back into a routine every day. I remember being tired when I started teaching but I definitely wasn't this exhausted every day... I used to laugh at Sarah last year when she went to bed at 9pm, but I totally get it now! I've been in bed by about 8:30pm and asleep not longer after every night this week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These aren't the best pictures but I wanted to show a few of my classroom...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back corner has our owl word wall and the kids' cubbies and some materials. I bought the paper globes when I was in the States and planned on hanging them from the ceiling. We need to borrow a ladder from maintenance before we can hang them and just haven't gotten around to it yet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Other back corner... "My Family and I" is one of the first social studies themes we'll be doing and the kids will bring in pictures of their families. I'm hoping to use the half-table for small groups once we're able to start centers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The disaster that was organizing their school supplies! We still have several who haven't brought their supplies yet but as I had no supplies for us to use (another teacher had to give me pencils... seriously, I had nothing), it was pretty important that we sorted out the stuff we did have!</span></div>
Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-5864238733572062372016-07-29T22:32:00.000-05:002016-07-30T08:32:25.102-05:00Moving Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today was the much anticipated moving day! Ever since Sarah, Lindsey and I arrived back in Cochabamba, number 1 on the priority list was find apartments. Mine and Sarah's contract ends at the end of July and with school starting back on Monday (so not looking forward to that alarm!), I knew I needed to get moved in before then. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent my first week back mostly at the hogar and looked up apartments online. My friend Danitza, her husband and I drove around one night too looking for apartments. Finally last Sunday in the classifieds Lindsey and I spent the day calling about possibilities for both of us. I drug Sarah and Lindsey with me to visit the apartment below and we all agreed it was the one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I signed the contract Monday and then during the week Lindsey helped me move most of my stuff over. This morning was the day to move furniture. I have the most wonderful, helpful friends who didn't mind (well, if they did they didn't show it!) sitting outside for 2 hours waiting on the transporte to arrive and then carry all that furniture up four flights of stairs... They truly are the best!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll write another blog with pictures when everything is organized and decorated... I still have so much to do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> For now this may just be the living room as I don't have a kitchen table and chairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> My bedroom... Love all those cabinets!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Our apartment building has two patios. One is shared by everyone, and this one is just for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Waiting on our transport truck to arrive... I'd been given the name of someone to call and had spoken with him multiple times throughout the week. I couldn't imagine there would be any issues this morning. When I called to tell him we were ready, he said that he hadn't actually written down where I told him to go and since he couldn't remember, he sent the guys with the truck to a random corner in downtown Cochabamba to wait on me, and I could call them if I wanted to tell them where to come. Seriously. After multiple phone calls, I finally got in touch with them and it seemed that they finally knew where to go. There were also blockades today which getting around a little trickier as well. After TWO HOURS of them not showing up, we gave up. Ana Rita, my co-teacher and also the most helpful friend ever, flagged down another transporte. We thought he was going to help us, but then he drove away. Right after that, the first truck arrived but she sent them away, saying we'd been waiting hours and they were too late. She then went out in search of another one and he followed her back to my house. He ended up helping me move and then went back to our other apartment and helped Sarah move into her new apartment too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Sarah and I always go to the "puppy market" (an area in front of the stadium where people can sell puppies) on Sunday mornings to see all the dogs for sale. We really want one, and she wants to name it Thor. This dog came up to our door and was hanging out with us while we waited to move, and she thought he might be a Thor. It did seem like a good name for him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it's my apartment, I should have probably been down there helping them move up furniture instead of taking pictures of them doing all the work! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ever since we were told we aren't allowed to post pictures of our kids on the internet (new Bolivian law), blogging has been a lot more sporadic. I miss being able to show off our cute kids and all the silly things they do! We still take lots of pictures, but I guess they're just for us to enjoy... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lot happened in the month I was in the States. CDA is going through some big transitions, and I'll update you on that when I'm able to do so. Just know that for now, it's been so great to be back!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I tried out a few Spanish churches while home... I drug my mother along to the first one I went to, and they gave her a print-out of the sermon in English so she was able to follow along. The people were super welcoming and friendly- almost to Belén's (our church in Cochabamba) level, but not quite!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After 11 years at FUMCB, Bro. David retired. I was happy I was able to be there on his last Sunday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I had to get some documents legalized for school... I quickly received them back after the first step and was feeling pretty good about getting them done so quickly, and then realized I'd messed them up after sending them off for the next step... Legalizing documents is such a pain! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm always most excited about the food when I go home... There are plenty of Bolivian foods I really like and many I've acquired a taste for, but desserts in Bolivia just don't compare to desserts in the States... Had to fill up on as much chocolate as I could!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> She's such a good hairstylist... Check her out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I want a dog SO BAD. My mom and sister help at the Humane Society and they recently got the most adorable little chihuahua named Lily. I really wanted to adopt her and bring her back to Bolivia with me, but I didn't have time to do all the necessary paperwork I needed to be able to bring her... I did go visit her though! Once I get settled in a new apartment, adopting a dog is number one on my list of priorities!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our neighborhood has a new "Little Free Library" courtesy of my mother!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We love visiting the St. Jude Dream Home every summer! Hoping we win the house... I can think of a few uses for that money ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Picking up Mardi Gras float supplies for the Humane Society... Only Madre got a comfortable ride home that day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in Dallas and ready to head back to La Llajta... This was the first time I came back with three suitcases and two super heavy carry-ons and it will NEVER happen again, I assure you. Walking through the Miami airport with all my stuff was the worst.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friends from church picked me up at the airport on Sunday morning. I wanted to go to church but also wanted to go to the hogar to see the kids, but knew we'd arrive late to church if I went to pick them up. Our friends suggested we come anyway as there was a lunch after the service. I took 5 of the big girls with me and they were THRILLED to be back at Belén... as was I! It was great to see everyone again, and they were welcomed back by almost everyone in attendance... We've accepted the fact that they love our kids more than they love us, and that's okay! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Back in January the day before I started teaching, I only somewhat jokingly said I hoped that in June I could say we'd made it out alive... Well, today my kids graduated, so I guess that means we did it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I don’t know that I could ever really describe what this first semester of teaching has been like. The first month was HARD. As I’ve said before, I took over for another teacher and that’s never easy… In the beginning, I was reminded daily that I just didn’t do it right! By about mid-February, we started to figure it out together and at some point in March, I remember telling myself that we were having more good days than bad. This semester has flown by and I can’t believe it’s over! They were a diverse bunch and I learned so much from them, so much more than I ever taught them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Cochabamba is in a valley, and the view of the mountains is so pretty from school!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I probably shouldn't post this, but a few months ago, we were learning about the weather. One page in our book had this blank picture and the kids had to draw appropriate clothing for hot and cold weather. This little girl left NOTHING to the imagination in her hot weather picture!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I think I may have blogged about Murphy el Dinosaurio awhile ago. Before we started our dinosaur unit, I bought this little plastic dinosaur and made an egg for him. He hatched while we were at recess, and when the kids came back in, they named him Murphy. Most of them forgot about him after a couple days but one of my kids was OBSESSED with Murphy. She asked about him multiple times a day and was constantly wanting to be near him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> In April, kindergarten participated in the Science Fair. We put the kids into groups and each had a topic about plants. They all brought in supplies for our posters and each had a sentence or two to speak at the presentation. They did so well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Several of my kids took home a behavior chart every day... Good or bad behavior, it didn't matter. On days the class as a whole was especially wild, I'd write "Behavior Chart" on the board and they knew if their name was written down, they'd take one too. My most difficult child loved "helping" write it on the board some days. This was her first attempt. She understands so much English but prefers not to speak it, so I was impressed with her attempt- Bihevo Ch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Graduation must be soon! Signing the first set of diplomas...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Graduation day with our two amazing kinder assistants!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my student's parents sent this to me... We received beautiful flowers and gifts from our class during the graduation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have many more cute pictures of the kids during graduation but I can't post any pictures of them. Imagine a big group of cute Bolivian kids in tiny caps and gowns! It was a short but sweet ceremony... and now they're off to 1st grade!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today was the long-awaited wedding day of Franco and Danyelle! We've all been counting the days and the kids were so excited to be a part of their special day. As we knew she would be, Danyelle was a beautiful bride and the whole ceremony and reception was a lot of fun! The ceremony was done in both English and Spanish, and we were so impressed with how well the two cultures were combined. We joked about taking note of how it was done in case any of us would need it in the future... Unfortunately, it would appear that it won't be necessary any time soon so we'll just have to live vicariously through Danyelle and Franco! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We stayed almost until the end of the reception and the kids would have been happy to stay longer! They loved getting to spend time with several former tías and their families, and they were just so happy to be there. As many marriages of our Bolivian friends aren't so great, we really want them to see what a Godly, healthy relationship looks like and Danyelle and Franco will be a great example to them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Preparations for us actually began last night. Sarah ironed all the kids clothes so they'd be ready for today... Look at her being so domestic!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The ceremony began with both Danyelle's and Franco's parents joining them at the front of the church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think it was around this point that one of the kids sitting next to me turned and asked "When is the wedding?" Obviously we didn't explain it well enough to them...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> #franyelle... Tía Daniela officially #becameamoron</span></div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-23399917723431265002016-05-08T21:00:00.000-05:002016-05-08T21:00:06.081-05:00Just some updates!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't blogged in what feels like forever, but there are a few reasons for that...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Casa de Amor has been going through a bit of a rough patch for the last several months. I won't go into too many details but the most recent event involved several days of inspections into the hogar. It's been a trying time for us all... We love the kids and want the best for them but sometimes it's hard to determine how to best move forward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Last week we received a notice from SEDEGES telling us we can no longer post any pictures of the kids due to some new privacy laws. As for now, my blog posts won't have any pictures. Disappointing, I know! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-A couple weeks ago, G. left with his adoptive family! They adopted a little girl from another orphanage at the same time, so G. officially has a big sister! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-We've had several birthdays during the past couple of months but due to school, I haven't been able to be there for the celebrations, hence no pictures!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Baby M. was admitted to the hospital this past Friday for bronchopneumonia. We each took a shift with him this weekend (I spent yesterday morning with him). He's in a hospital a little bit outside of the city, and the population of patients there is a bit different than that at the city hospitals... Lots of Quechua was being spoken and I was asked multiple times if the "wawa" was really my son! The other mothers kept me entertained... speaking Quechua amongst themselves, looking at me and then one would translate what they had been discussing to find out if what they were discussing was correct! At one point they asked if I spoke Quechua and I answered "ari" ("yes"... although let's be honest, I only know the bad things Tía Silvia taught me!). They thought it was hilarious... Only in Bolivia, y'all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-School is keeping me far too busy (we have a list a mile long of things to complete before the year ends) and I've really only been able to see the babies briefly on the weekends... They love their church outings and we've even taken them out to lunch the past several Sundays! I look forward to Sunday mornings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Speaking of school, we only have 18 more days with the kids as kinder graduation is June 3! We're already practicing for the graduation. They have to learn the American anthem, and whenever I turn on the music, a few of them say "Ms. Hannah, it's your song!" The Bolivian anthem (which I'm learning) is "their song." We're competing to see if they can learn the American anthem before I learn the Bolivian anthem... They've got the first two lines down but after that it's a lot of mumbling! I think I'm winning ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-In some ways being at school is a whole different experience from being at the hogar but in other ways I think it may have been the best preparation for teaching. I've definitely become a more patient person which helps with some of my most "behaviorally challenged" students!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's really all the news for now! Not sure how much I'll be updating this next month, but I'm planning on coming to the States for a few weeks this summer so I may just get to update a few of you in person!</span>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-54662068542292686832016-04-24T17:27:00.001-05:002016-04-24T17:27:55.217-05:002 Week Catch-Up!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a busy past couple of weeks at school and at the hogar and feels like forever since I last blogged! I've got quite a few pictures that haven't been posted yet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Unfortunately this may be the creepiest blog post to date! ;) As you can see, I've blurred out the eyes of our kids... It's really just for their protection... Any tips on how to add an image over their face (instead of blurring them out which as I said just looks creepy!) would be greatly appreciated!</span></div>
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<br />Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-80065137270189826722016-04-14T21:30:00.000-05:002016-04-14T21:32:00.049-05:00Meet the Parents!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look who finally got to meet his adoptive parents today!!! We knew the first meeting should be happening soon but weren't sure when, and when Sarah went to the hogar after school, the tías told her all about it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He's been Tía Silvia's baby <span style="color: white;"><a href="http://anotherpinonthemap.blogspot.com/2014/03/its-another-boy.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: white;">since he arrived</span></a> </span>at just a week old so understandably, as much as she wants him to have a family, she wasn't happy about the big meeting. His parents are also adopting another child, a little girl about a year older than he is (he just turned 2 in March) from another hogar in Cochabamba. There are some big changes coming for all of them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm hoping I'll be able to meet his new parents at some point before they get to take him home, but we'll see!</span></div>
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<br />Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-17003652346942586562016-04-10T15:50:00.000-05:002016-04-10T15:50:43.190-05:00Día del Niño at church!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Tuesday, April 12th is Día del Niño (Children's Day). Our church celebrated with the kids today. All of the big kids are now going to church with one of the tías and we're just taking the younger big kids and the toddlers/babies. The volunteers came and picked up babies and Sarah and I took 7 kids with us so the tías at home were left with very few kids for the morning. We all had a great time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These two are 6 months old and quite the chunky babies! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In an attempt to cover up her bald head (I swear her hair hasn't grown even a little since last week!), she got to wear a giant bow... She wasn't a fan though and took it off as soon as we arrived at church!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it just our church that has a superhero themed skit for Children's Day?! Yeah, I thought so. The idea of the skit was cute- A little girl was scared of the dark and the super heroes came to try and protect her from the dark. At the end she realized that having Jesus in her heart is the only real thing that will protect her. However, the actual skit scared our toddlers and there were lots of tears!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She covered her ears and closed her eyes for most of the skit. When we were walking home, she said "You know that skit? I laughed and laughed!" At least she remembers it being a positive experience!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's not been on her best behavior lately and was given the big ultimatum of no outings with me last week if she doesn't start following the rules... It worked. She was SO well behaved this morning!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">V. started crying while we were getting lunch ready for everyone and E. took it upon himself to give him a giant stick to play with. I saw it and took it away just in time as he nearly poked himself in the eye!</span></div>
Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17435305001514400088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127315499217103477.post-29456933738311890122016-04-09T14:32:00.000-05:002016-04-10T14:32:16.559-05:00Where's the girl?!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the past couple weeks, most of our babies have been victims of having their heads shaved... girls included! It's so bad. Let's play a little game- where is the girl? See if you can find R. in the bunch... Answer down below!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Answer: If you guessed R. is the 3rd picture, you're right! Poor thing is totally bald!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today is one of my favorite days in Cochabamba- Pedestrian Day! The kids enjoy it too and we had a busy day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A. was scalped earlier this week... I knew it had happened and had seen pictures so it wasn't a total shock when I showed up this morning... It's so bad though!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our church had a service and lunch today but it was too far to walk from the hogar. Instead we went to a church down the street that some of our missionary friends attend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of our friends bought the kids salchipapas to eat after church... Of course they acted like they'd been starved and couldn't even look up for a picture!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Quick stop back home to pick up the big kids for a trip to the park!</span></div>
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