The last few weeks here have been really busy. First Allison cme to visit for a week and we went to Puerto Lopez, a small beach/fishing town that it a couple hour bus ride away from Guayaquil. We stayed at a place that was run by an extremely eccentric Italian/Swill couple. Our room was ´´beautifully nestled in private botanical gardens´´(insert crazy man with Italian accent) and was right on the beach. We went out into the water one afternoon and we kept stepping on rocks everywhere. So, I decided to pick one up and to my suprise it wasn´t a rock at all. We had been walking on a bed of star fish! It was a wonderful get away and I suggest going if you ever get a chance.
When we got back, our after school programs had our christmas party. We invited kids from all three progams to the retreat house in Arbolito. My personal favorite activity was out decorating of Christmas cookies. Jair, a 5 year old, dumped handfull after handfull of sprinkles all over his cookie and had no idea how to eat it because the pile on top of it was so big. Then we cut out snowflakes and played soccer and gave out small presents to all of the kids. It was really fun!
On Christmas eve me and my housemates were in the Christmas play during the mass at our church. I was one of the three wise men. Everyone that was to be playing a boy in the play had to have beards drawn on to their faces with permanant markers (for some reason Ecuadorians love chin straps) meaning that all the girls from my house were walking around with beards on. On Christmas day we had a relaxing morning and then we all went to Damien house, a hospital for people with Hansen´s disease(aka Leaporsy) and we sang song. Afterwards, Sr. Annie invited us over for dinner where we had a much needed break from Ecuadorian foods. She cooked us a big Italian dinner and we sang songs all night long.
The next morning we left for our Christmas break vacation...
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