TGIFriday

On Friday, we went to Agua Viva a community center in a small community of mostly farm laborers. While we were there, we did a lot of playing with the kids. I gave a lot of piggy back rides and tickled a lot of kids. Two days ago when we were at Agua Viva there was a small boy who said something in Spanish to me, assuming I didn’t understand I just nodded and said, “si si.” He then proceeded to pee on the play set. I said “no, no,  no el bano?” He said “si.” Of course he would actually use a word I knew and I still couldn’t understand.  Playing with the kids at Agua Viva was an amazing experience, even when they didn’t understand what you were saying it was so nice to just play. They would find a way to get you to understand what they wanted. When we later took a tour of the community, you saw where these kids lived and how even the seven and eight year olds are taking care of four and three year olds. It made you feel even better to be able to play with these kids and give them a fun time. On Friday, we went to Agua Viva and then to Baja 89 (aka Javier’s), another community center in a different community where we would be helping out and then spending the night. Friday night, Javier took us to a local soccer field where they were playing what looked like a pickup game. Javier got them to let Gavin and Jacob play with them. Every time one of them got the ball we would cheer really loudly. There was one point when both Gavin and Jacob ran into each other. We cheered especially loudly for that; we were the only ones doing any cheering. After the game, we then went to a grocery store to pick up hamburger meat, corn, and watermelon to feed the kids an American lunch on Saturday. When the kids come to Javier’s on Saturday we are going to put on a play (in Spanish) of the bible story Daniel and the lion’s den and making lion handprints as a craft. Then we can play with these kids and have as many great experiences as we did at Agua Viva.

-Sarah Fisher