¡AFORMARSEBIEN!

So, we have officially begun rainy season here in the Guayas province of Ecuador and that means a few things. First, and most obvious to you outsiders, these streets are horrible. The mud on the roads outside our house makes it so we have to go around a extra few blocks to get to Semillas. Also, Jon, Christina, and Caitlin went out and bought rain boots to get through the mud. Also, the rain and heat have brought mosquitos out in record numbers. My house has bug bites all over our arms and legs and even on the bottoms of our feet.
Also, the rainy season means that it is vacation and all of the schools are out. Schools here get off from the end of January to April for vacation instead of the summer time due to the rainy season. Also, the schools here work in two or three shifts per day depending on the school. There is usually a morning and afternoon shift and often an evening shift. Semillas takes place in the afternoon and without school for every kid in Arbolito there have been crazy numbers. Before about a week or two ago we were averaging at about 45 kids every day at program. Now that school is out we are getting about 100 every day and up to 130 on Fridays. yesterday we had 42 little kids and 65 big kids. I think that we might add a ´medianos´ group to split up the big kids and make everything more managable. It has been getting really hard to plan activities for groups of kids this big. (if you have any ideas be sure to send them our way) Things more than ever have turned into a very fine art of controlled chaos. It has been alot of fun with this many kids too. Every day there is someone I havn´t met and it makes it nearly impossible to keep names straight. I´m out of time. Gotta go plan a little kids activity!