Listening to my ipod

So this weekend I took to sleeping with my ipod blaring in my ears because there was this HUGE easter party that lasted 4 days and they were playing such loud music and firing off canons. The only time they were quiet was from midnight till 3 in the morning. So needless to say I´m feeling a little sleep deprived :) Skip and I bought supplies for the girls to make jewlery so we did that Sunday afternoon, they can take the jewlery they made and sell it to the teams that come down. It´s really beautiful stuff :) One week till I come home so i think this is my last post :)

Happy Easter :)

So it´s Easter this weekend and seems like everyone is getting ready for it over here. The kids haven´t had school since Tuesday, and I noticed today that a lot of the stores are closed. Tomorrow we´re having a volunteer easter dinner at the worksite so I´m really looking forward to that. I´m not sure if the casa will do anything special for the occasion. It´s been a very busy week, Sunday the time changed which I totally forgot about so I woke up 5 minutes before I was supposed to meet Skip for church.... oops :) Also on Sunday I went to Jeremy and Ana´s house for lunch, andf got to see their house which is really nice. I also used their phone to call home and talk to my mom, which was awesome :) Erin´s left last Thursday so Skip is taking care of Jose, the youngest at the orphanage. So I´ve been doing some babysitting for her, as well as watching Benjamin, Jeremy and Ana´s little boy in the afternoons. Other than that I´m just keeping busy walking the kids to school, and playing with them in the afternoons. I have 2 weeks left, seems like right when you start to get comfortable somewhere you got to go home. Hope everyone has an awesome easter weekend back home!

Day of Awesomeness :)

Soooo yesterday was just a day of awesomeness :) In the morning there was this huge gathering thingy downstairs at the orphanage. There were important looking people, nuns and get this.... camera crews, photographers. Yeah so somewhere out there last night on Mexican television my face was probably a little dot :) Its my claim to fame :) Then in the afternoon the kids had gotten tickets to the circus which is in town right now. So we drove down with all the kids to go see that. They all got pop, popcorn and a cookie to eat during the very entertaining show. It´s been awhile since I´ve been to a circus so I also enjoyed it very much. Yesterday was also the first time I´ve driven in a vehicle since I got picked up from the airport, and my first time driving with a Mexican. They´re crazy drivers!!! Plus there´s no real seatbelt law in Mexico except that the driver has to wear one. So no one was wearing seatbelts and the little kids sat on our laps. So I held on to Sarahi for dear life the whole time so she didn´t fly out the window :) I´ve been here 5 weeks now and only have 3 left. I can´t believe how fast it´s going it´s unreal. But it´s been such an awesome and rewarding experience so far. However 5 weeks is starting to take it´s toll on my supplies. My hand sanitizer is pretty much gone and the only other hand sanitizer I can find in this whole city is attatched to a bag of Depends. I cant decide if it´s worth it to buy the Depends just so I can have the sanitizer... :) I´m also running out of toilet paper, apparantly I go through more than three rolls in two months :)