On a Mission in Peru — Day 6
Today the volunteers with morning shift had to help with the babies. One of them was being naughty and bit Mr. Halstead´s shoulder when play time was over. During lunch, the kids were being difficult and they didn’t want to eat. Dr. Tony says that they need to eat everything they have on their plate for nutrition reasons. For dinner, they finished dinner very quickly because if they didn’t finish, they would not have chocolate for desert. We also went to the park with the kids that didn’t have homework, and two of the boys got into a fight over a toy. Our creativity is being used everywhere in Spanish and in childcare.
Today some of the volunteers, including myself, didn’t get to go to our routine coffee break at 4 p.m. because we were at the park longer than usual with a class of visiting Peruvian students. I would have enjoyed the break and the chocolate cake.
For dinner we had an omelet with spinach and I also tried a hot sauce called Aji. It was so spicy but I liked it in small quantities. We left the Hogar at 8 p.m. after evening Mass and dinner. Roxana, our blind “Incan princess” sang one of her Quechu songs at the park. She also listened to part of the Three Musketeers at the library and practiced her 11 and 12 multiplication tables with Mrs. Halstead.
By Alexandria Dunlap, student studying Spanish with Mrs. Egan
