Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Dia Cuatro

Hola, this time from Chris and Jack.
Today we woke up and went to breakfast...shocker. After that we did nothing at the volunteer house because we are all lazy teens... again, shocker. Around 8 we went back to the technical school to continue our painting. Since it was raining we painted the interior of one of the workshops a delightful creme color. Quick fact about the paint, it`s oil based so it does not come out with water. Apparently it is not legal in the U.S. and it`s like having colorful super-glue on your hands. Our lunch was chicken, rice, and strawberry juice which is apparentley a thing. After that we had a soccer game against the kids at the technical school. We put up a valiant effort with William and Maggie playing extremley well. The score was 5-2 them because they were all young Messi's. Jake and Charlotte took many pictures so you will get a chance to see our awesomeness. After the game we watched as the boys tried to climb a greased telephone pole to get money at the top. They eventually got the money by having 4 kids stand on each others shoulders. Again there will be pictures. After that we headed back to El Hoagar and went immediatley to buy soda's and candy from the shop. After we returned to the volunteer house and relaxed until we went to meet with Claudia for a discussion with two police officers about gangs in Honduras. They spoke a lot about how much children are affected since gangs try to recruit them or cause them harm. It was a revealing look into life in Honduras. After the meeting we went directly to dinner and after that we entertained the young girls until it was time to go to bed. Emma had caught a bunny named Carl which we brought to the girls who did not think it strange that someone was holding a large wild bunny. There are several other animals here such as the other bunny Shaniquewa and the cats which are named Pearl, OJ, and OJ Junior (who's a kitten). We entertained the girls with friendship bracelets, cards, ukeleles, coloring books, and Hot Wheels. They really liked the ukeleles which resulted in numerous ukeleles being strummed sporadically by untrained little girls. So the ukeleles were a great idea!(He says sarcastically) When it was time for the girls to go to bed they hugged us goodbye and went off to bed. Oh and Philip was bitten by one of the girls because she wanted the car he had. Not important but hilarious. After that we went back to the vounteer house and played the Celebrity Name Game which is basically the Superstars deck in Heads-Up. Gaps in peoples knowledge were made apparent rather quickly as people did not know who Benedict Cumberbatch was and Jake had never heard of Sacageawea. Then, once the game was over Chris and I were chosen to write the blog. Imagine the Reaping in the Hunger Games but there is a lot less competition. By the way, sorry if the spelling is terrible the language for the computer is spanish so not autocorrect. Also, Chris played a game on another computer the entire time I wrote this. Now normaly I wouldn't mind but he is playing a name the flag game and a name the capitals game which I find unacceptable. So as that about wraps up our day I will say Adios and Good night.  

3 comments:

  1. You all are amazing! Thanks for writing to us.

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  2. Writing the blog is like The Reaping? YPF blogs are so much more entertaining than our adult blogs. Bravo!

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  3. You're carrying on a great tradition--I can remember painting walls at the Technical School many years ago. Perhaps you painted the SAME walls. No greased poles back then, however, but GREAT food for lunch...

    Have fun!!

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