After an amazing party at Casa Hogar Thursday night, we spent the last day with the children at the Ethnobotanical Garden, Santo Domingo Church and the Blessing of the (flavored) Waters Festival. Bonding with the children has been amazing, and despite our bouts with illness, fatique and overheating in the sun at the Festival, the Wat kids want to come right back next year!!!
Enid and Carmen went to Sam´s Club and litterally bought a pick-up truck full of diapers, tuna, laundry detergent, cooking oil, soaps, beans, etc for Casa Hogar using the money Dave M. '12 raised selling the 'Support Casa Hogar' bracelets for his Senior Project. AGAIN- THANKS DAVE!!
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| The group at the Cultural Center in Etla today. |
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| Gwen and her children enjoying the scenery at the Garden |
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| Samanthan and Mario |
We are currently taking a few days to see the sights, visit artists and the magical mountain village of Benito Juarez before teaching English in the school at Ocotlan on Tuesday and Wednesday!! We will be unable to blog for a few days...but check bak as we update you on our teaching adventures!!
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| A group picture for 2012 at the Garden |
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| Oh my God!! Will saving a child from the heat at the Festival. |
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| A hug and a good-bye. |
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| Today´s visit to a paper factory in the hills. |
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| Our last sight of the children until next year. |
Here is a video from the party..Just a simple word can make a child happy!!!
Thank you so much for posting all these wonderful pictures! We cannot stop smiling after looking at them!
ReplyDeleteEveryone look like their enjoying themselves. Am glad that everyone is doing ok. Destiny your family miss you and your brothers want me to remind you to bring them back something from Mexico. See you this friday morning. Love ya!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt never ceases to amaze me what the students from Watkinson are doing by giving of themselves! What a truly caring bunch of kids! It says a lot about their families and their school environment! God Bless all of you!
ReplyDeleteI've been away and returned to see what a huge adventure you are all having. Sorry to hear of the gang not feeling so well, but what troopers you all are. It must have been tough to say goodbye to the kids - you all made such wonderful connections. Love the videos! How big was the base of that Tule tree? Enjoy the adventures ahead - can't wait to hear details.
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I just heard there was an earthquake in oaxaca, are you guys alright?
ReplyDeleteRhea, thanks for asking...we are all fine and just wrote a post about our experience!! Tons of stories for class!!
DeleteI've just gotten myself back on the ground from London with computer in hand. I am relishing the vivid pictures and the story that the successive blog entries create. It's all so familiar and yet I can see the new challenge of corralling the huge number of children through the streets of the city and inside the museums. The level of individual responsibility for the children is that much greater. I am enormously empathetic to all who have fallen to some form of Moctezuma's revenge; it's no fun. I just hope it subsides quickly so that you can return to the wonders of the trip. I imagine you now in the mountains of Benito Juarez as mañana es el dîa de su natalicio. I am trusting that you have weathered the earthquake safely; it's quite a scare if you have never felt one before. Ms. O'Brien's metaphors of Survivor and the Amazing Race are all quite apt; just as long as you don't switch over to Lost, todo está bién. Take good care. Enjoy your teaching in Ocotlán. Adiós. Ms. García
ReplyDeleteSandy, Benito Juarez was as beautiful and relaxing as the earthquake was exciting!! No LOST...we promise to return!!! Hope your trip was as enriching (with fewer taxis and less pepto)!!
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