More fun fiestas!

Pipon the clown came to visit us this morning. He brought several friends with him. He came dressed as himself, not his clown persona and started right in paint everyones' face (I didn't get my face painted today!). Soon after that he transformed into a clown and started some games. The girls dived into two teams and they has a screaming match to see which gorup could scream and whoop the loudest. This was a popular game. Then all of the girls lined up on one side of a long piece of masking tape, which was called Tierra (earth). There was a cravass and then Mar (sea). Our clown friend called out tierra mar tierra tierra mar mar mar mar teirra ............ As he called the entire group had to jump to the correct spot. Anone who was late or wrong moved out. When there were just two girls left (ages 9 and 14) another line was added - Cielo (sky or heaven). The fun really started then. All the girls came back and were jumping wildly at command. Everyone got a Christmas present. We put them under our Christmas tree for later but then realized that we couldn't leave them there - the tree is on the porch - beacuse of Manchi and Canela (Spotty and Cinnamon).

Another group of party givers came along and they had food for lunch (a cute bowl with a sandwhich (cheese), a cupcake, apple and a cookie. Every girls got a Hello Kitty drinking glass with a straw and soda. There were Hello Kitty Bags filled with fun things - including a small washcloth. I have one. The givers were three teachers from a local private school and I think they are very interested in continuing to work with us - we may have some dance lessons during the summer (Jan, Feb, March). One teaching Contabilidad (Book Keeping) which is a hard subject - so she may be able to help some of our students out a bit.

Yesterday 10 girls each received a radio for there good grades. Today all 10 were playing somewhere in the home each at a different station.

Tomorrow we have our anual party with a woman who grew up in the Home 30 or so years ago and works for COPA Airlines. She gives us a special party each year as well as getting together another big party for another large group of children. She had received a donation to help her parties which our driver picked up for her so for a short time we had 34 soccer balls. (We will get several and others will benefit from them two. They came with three boxes of cereal with each soccer ball - you do the math!

Tia Sue