Today Crystel (age 4 and 8 months, just starting to talk, with mild retardation and mild CP) started school. THis is a summer program and will serve to diagnose her and help them place her in a program near her home in MArch. For this program someone has to go with her each day (I hope this will be her 17 year old sister) and that involves going by bus to a reasonalbly near shoping center to get a ride to the center (they will bring her back too.) Crystel and her sisters are coming to visit me at the home tomorrow so we can talk about what we need to do to see that she get there every day (and to help her do her homework). She drools a lot and that is one of the things they and we are going to work on first. Her teacher wasn't too happy about this but that is one reason she is there. The support staff at the school, which has very nice classroom furniture, designed for kids with CP, are very nice and supportive. I haven't warmed up to the teacher yet, but it is only the first day. The school day (2 hours) includes as meal which is great because she will be eating meat (chicken today) and rice and beans. She ate everything today and can feed herself well, I think.
Some of the girls are returning to the home today and tomorrow so that the ones over 12 can go to camp on Saturday! It is nice to have them here again - it helps me work harder. Three sisters all told me they were very bored at home and I think are glad to be back. More about all this in the next post.
The home is slowly turning green - the new color it is being painted. We also have a new sign painted on the wall under the kitchen - it is great and is being done by the students from Instituto San Cristobal who are doing their social service work there.
Yesterday was a holiday here - Dia de los martires - check www.padremickey.blogspot.com for an account of what we have this holiday.
More soon.
Tia Sue
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