Time's flying by even faster than ever. A young couple from WA came down with a new van for the orphanage!!!!! They are going to be staying here at the mission for three weeks. And we leave before them - it really hit us. Thats super soon! It's going to be so hard to leave, and I so wish I could stay longer. Risa and I were talking about how its going to be like leaving our children!! Not ok...
So funny story. Last Sunday upon returning to our car in el Zorillo, the car (a different one from last time!) wouldnt start and we came to the conclusion that the battery was dead. (We still don't know how we could have left the lights on....maybe one inside the car?) So we go knock on the door of little Angela's house (where we park our car) to see if she has jumper cables. But this little old lady with barely any teeth opens the door, because apparently Angela isn't home. So we ask her if she knows if there are any cables around, and she just like "oh i dont know". and then we ask her if shes knows any one around that could possilby help us, and again "no, i dont really know of anyone". So Ris and I were like hmmm i guess were just gonna trek off until we find someone who can randomly help us, and hope to bump into someone like mr. sunshine again (which was very unlikely considering where we broke down last time was on the other side of town, right by his house). SO we start walking for a little while, heading towards the mechanic shop we've seen before in search of help, when this muchacho leaning up against the back of this honda looks at us and says "hola" in a sly way. I look at ris and am like "should we ask him". Ris was like no...kinda sketch. But I just turned around and was like heck im just gonna go for it. So he and his friends were looking around there place for something. and evenually this senor finds this sketched out cable that has wires sticking out every which was at either end. He told us it was a cable for lights.....but it could work. Ris and i looked at eachother like oh goodness. isn't that a little dangerous?? we didnt want any one dying in attempts to help us with our car. The guy tried to convince us it was not dangerous, when luckily the muchacho found real jumper cables. So we piled in his honda. Risa up front sliding back and forth on the seat, cuz it wouldnt stay put. And the guy got us going again. Now we are convinced that we just need to invest in horses... we've had enough of dealing with cars. but we have been provided with help both times!
It's been ridiculously hot the last couple of days. mid/upper 90's. The house can get kind of broiling or freezing when its really cold out.... And there's not much shade around the orphanage property... so we were pretty much dying. we ended up going to the mission where there's shade and the kids all bathed themselves in the hose. Put water on the concrete sidewalk and lie in the water. Trying to spray risa and I when we came close. Frijol was running around without any clothes, getting drenched in the hose by selene who would not stop. Viki and I washed the girls laundry (which is never ending...). It wouldn't be nearly as time consuming if it was like doing laundry in the states. But we have to fill the machine up with a hose, let it wash for a little while, wring the clothes out, and rinse the soap out in a basin of water, wring the water out, and then put all the clothes back in the machine to spin... But the clothes dry within mintutes on the clothesline when its super hot like it has been. It's gonna be strange going back home and having washers and driers agian... It's weird how much I can adapt and become so accostumed to life how it is, and then go back home-have some culture shock for a little while, and then somehow slide back into the grove of life in America....Its kinda sad. Yesterday when driving to Maneadero I was just looking at the window and it didn't even phase me as "Mexico", it just felt like home.
Darrell came down a couple of days ago. And he brought a swingset with him!!! We put it up a rickity wooden thing, but it still works! (just not so much for the bigger kids). Ever since then the kids have been on it non stop. Juanito espicially. Hes always saying, "shala! shala, vamos a columpiar?!?" He gets very sad/angry when I can't come out and push him. I've been trying to teach him how to pump his legs. But he hasn't gotten the hang of it yet. When Frijol swings he's constantly saying, "mas recio!!" He wants to go higher and higher, unlike Juan who someimes starts crying when he goes too high. Frijol is fearless.... to the point where the kids will push him too crazily and fall... Darrell also brought down a trampoline (haha or tramping machine...) but it was missing some parts. So risa and I lucked out on having to watch in fear while the kids jump....I guess our family had a trampoline and we all survived. Lol were just thinking more and more like mothers...
The kids didnt have school thursday or friday. Teachers day. There have been so many random days where the kids just don't have school... The kindergardeners didnt have school all week until friday for some reason.... quien sabe.
The phone at the mission hasnt been working for the last week, and our only store in town with internet shut down....It's funny, the only time we hear whats happening in the world is when we go to english chucrch on Sunday.
We've been out of toiliet paper for the last week. Risa and I had a roll in our room, and now its just down to napkins....lol getting pretty bad.
Risa and I found a vegetarian health food shop/resturaunt today that we ate at! woohoo.
And wow did we have an adventure at the wedding last night!
Well were off to soak up some rays (apparently we can't go in the water though because of sharks....) while the suns still shining:)
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