Welcome to the last day with those beautiful girls at the orphanage!
Today, we played with the girls in the morning. We also got the added pleasure of purchasing the orphanage a washing machine. Before, the owners and workers were doing all the laundry by hand! Can you imagine? 22 girls plus the workers that lived there also? By hand! Praise God we were able to do this for them! Now they can spend less time washing clothes and more time loving on those girls.
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| Playing with the girls |
In the afternoon, we took the girls to a local park. While everyone was playing soccer and baseball, I got to walk to the grocery store with Milton to shop for lunch the next day. Crossing the street was a bit scary but we made it! The grocery store was fun. Lots of random things - it was neat to compare American grocery items to El Salvadorian items...and also note the price differences!
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| Baseball at the park |
After the park, we piled onto the bus and everyone went to Pizza Hut. It was slightly stressful! So many little mouths to feed! And while at Pizza Hut, the unthinkable happened. Little Fannie was so tired from her busy afternoon at the park, she fell asleep sitting up in her chair. Me, being smitten with her, decided she shouldn't have to sleep sitting up so I pulled her onto my lap. It was then that I discovered her pants were kind of wet. I knew she had been playing in her soda cup on her lap so I figured it was that. After taking a better look, I noticed that the stain on her pants could only be from the fact that she had wet them. I didn't panic...I gently laid her back in the seat, stood up and said to Christina "I think I may have pee on me!" And yes, yes I did...all over my shirt, shorts, legs and hands. It all turned out okay, I went to the bathroom and washed my hands and legs off. But when we went to leave the restaurant, they just left poor, wet Fannie laying in the seat. So Victor (from our group) took one for the team and carried her out to her mom (she works at the orphanage). I think her mom wished we would have just held her all the way home!
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| Little Fannie asleep after I picked her up. Notice her pants! :) |
We went back to the orphanage and said our good-byes. There were some tears...both from us and the girls. We kept telling them, "hasta pronto!" which means "See you soon!" Don't make me lie to those little girls...I need to see them again soon! Even if I did get their pee on me! :)
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| Tania at the park...just because she's so stinking cute!!!! |
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