in these last few days...

It's all coming to an end too fast. I've been trying to do as much as possible in the last while so that's why I haven't been able to really update this blog.

I think this true for any experience you go through, but what you get out of something is usually proportional to what you put into it. I've been trying to talk to as many people as possible and participating in whatever I can.

The past weekend, the youth in my church had an event in Central Park in downtown. There was music and dramatic presentations. It was really awesome actually. It was interesting because this is the same place that people do their manifestations and rallies. haha it was our turn, but without the Mel/Micheletti campaigning. ¡Dios te bendia!

I decided that I wanted to really experience Bencaleth, so I've slept over a couple of nights with the staff. It was really fun actually. It was nice to be able to tuck my kids into bed, and they really love it when I stay over. And then there's the bonding time with the staff afterhours. haha you see a different side of them. Oh, I was able to help to bathe and change and brush the teeth of the kids. Do you know how hard it is to carry a 100-lb wet and wiggling youth from the bathroom to the bedroom?
Perhaps my proof that I have spent a lot of time at Bencaleth is that we now share everything. This weekend, the kids shared their lice with me. haha yes. They call them piojos here :D But the girls here are experts at picking them out and we have really fun chatting times while they pick them out. If you want to know if your friends are real friends, ask them if they would help to de-lice your head. haha

And with my host mom, I try to spend as much time with her as possible. I like how we can have fun just watching TV together. She's one of those people that makes comments about everything that happens on TV. You can imagine the heated conversations we had when the political issues were being shown on the news! A cute random story: I once thought it was funny that there were siamese twin bananas at the supermarket (two bananas in the same peel, if you can imagine that) and so I bought it and took it home. The next day, I came home from work to find a giggling host mom and two sets of plantain siamese twins on the table.