HELLLLLOO! Im still alive :)
Its been a really good first week, and today it has been really hot, even though the locals arent really feeling and are laughing at us for wearing shorts in the winter...
We have demolished the kitchen at the girls house, and Alfredo, the local builder has started rebuilding it, while Ann and I have repainted the shelves, with the worst paint ever, which is more like plastic. Phil has been fixing up the area where they chickens live and Carol, Phillip and AJ have been working on the kitchen garden.
The weather is getting warmer and the colds are starting to clear up, except for Ossy who has a bad chest but is still working so hard.
On Thursday, the children broke up for their two week winter holiday and we got invited to a fundraising thing at QQH High School (in Paraguay the government only pay teachers wages, and schools have to pay for everything including electricity and water), which included a mini sports day, dancing and drama. We took all the girls with us, while a couple of the older ones performed. Also, the girls got their reports today and 'our girls' have come out as the best in the school.
We have weekends off, and this morning a few of us went for a walk down to the lagoon and around QQH, which was nice, and we were joined for most of it by two little local boys who pointed out all the lemon, orange and grapefruit trees.
This afternoon we went to the next village for some kind of school prize giving, and the girls put on a dance and evangelised through puppets, even the adults were getting involved. It was really good to see the work they are doing at such a young age, and it is all because they are now living with Ossy and Marie-Louise and safe and happy. The older girls are going to school and are talking to their friends and sharing the bible, they are not imposing and its not planned, it is simply their peers around them seeing that they are different and wanting to know why. You come here and hear their stories and and all you want to do is bring them back to Englang, but its not the right thing to do, they need to be here where they are changing where they live. If you took them out then the area would never get any better.
If there is one memory that I will take away from this place it will be the happiness and joy, and the laughter and skipping.
I have to go now, it is only 8pm but Im half asleep already xxx
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