Gatitos
Trip Start
Jun 16, 2005
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Trip End
Aug 2006
San Jose,
Costa Rica
Sunday, October 9, 2005
Things have been going very well since our return from Managua, and I've finally had to start turning kids away. With the size of the space and only one adult, I really have to keep the numbers to 20 in each session, which is a little too bad, but ensures that I get to have time to actually work with the kids rather than just baby-sit.
Bosco was caught by one of the kids stealing pencils from the locked cabinet downstairs (apparently Argenis jimmied it open with a knife, so he certainly is out for good), so Daisy pulled him out for awhile. He just came back on Friday and has been behaving fairly well, so we'll see what happens.
I guess Bosco brought home a cat whose belly quickly grew in size, and it ended up having four kittens
30 kids in small space
! Quite a lesson in biology for that family. They're absolutely adorable, and Jennifer has already laid claim to the one female. People in these communities usually only want males because they don't bring home kittens (spaying and neutering are foreign concepts), but Jennifer wants a cat that will still hunt after being spayed. So, female it is.Oh, one more side-note from Managua: one of the daughters in the first family we stayed with is a school teacher and is paid 1,000 cordoba each month. It's 17 cordoba to the dollar, so that's about $59 a month - and she has a university degree and one of the few jobs available.
Heidi and Marco are in the US right now, so I gave my first sermon today. That was quite interesting. Four minutes long (hey, it was in Spanish, too!) and on Matthew 22:1-14. Even as I was reading it, I knew there was more I could have said, but it was a good experience -- and those last four verses are difficult.
And, here are some pictures of the classroom with 30 kids -- hence my decision to firmly cap the numbers to 20 in each session. I'm starting to get the hang of this.
Hope you all are doing well!
Peace,
Elizabeth
