Water Day

Saturday, we ate my favorite Guatemalan lunch: grilled beef and guacamole. Beforehand, I helped Rony in the kitchen. Here, I learned how to make tortillas, which is actually really hard. The dough always sticks to your hands and it’s really hard to make it perfectly circular and to get the balance of thin enough, but without holes. I think I may need a few more days of practice (let’s just say that later when I was handing them out at lunch, I could tell which ones I made). Rony also dared me to eat a jalapeño (which did not go well) and we raced to see who could eat half a lime the fastest, while making the least amount of faces.
We had a water day after lunch. The garden has canals and a fountain and every once in awhile, we pay a water trunk to come fill it up with 2,000 gallons of water. This is always super exciting for the little kids (and the big kids too, but they won’t admit it). The water was cold and dirty, but I pretended that I was a little kid and didn’t care. I had a blast splashing around and watching the kids have a good time. One time, when it was just me and four little girls in the deepest part, I suddenly realized that I was the only one in the fountain. I looked up at the girls all lined up peering gravely down at me. I asked what was going on. There’s a worm, was the calm response. Now, I’m not usually afraid of worms, but this one looked suspiciously a lot like a leech, so I too vacated the water pretty quickly. Wendy has since informed me that there are no leeches in Guatemala. One of the boys got a stick and fished it out and we were soon back to splashing in the water. Some other highlights: Kelsey (an intern) chasing Nancy and doing a face plant in the grass, one of the home parents telling her version of Kelsey’s fall (involving Kelsey pretending that she was superman), Michi dropping water from the top story of the school onto the girls below, Ramsis avoiding everyone that tried to get him wet and then jumping in the pool, the sunshine (what a perfect day!), the water balloon fight, and seeing little Jorge trying to avoid all the little kids who were trying to pick him up and put him in the water.

Words of the Day:
Meterse (may- tear- say)- to get into (for example, the water)
Tortillar (tor- tea- yar)- to make tortillas
Globo (glow- boe)- balloon
Gusano (goo- sah- noe)- worm