Two Saturdays ago I helped take care of 18 kids from the ages of 10 months to 10 years. Well, I wasn’t the only one, and I didn’t take care of them all at once, but it was still a lot of work. The house parents of the two Children’s Homes get one day off per week, and they have to be out of the house during that day. Usually the administrators of the Homes have sufficient help covering that day, but this time they asked me to help too. I played with them after breakfast, went to the park and ate lunch with them, stuck around during naptime to make sure they behaved, fed 10 of them dinner, then helped put them to bed. It was a great day all-in-all; and the only difficulties came when it was dinner and bedtime. For that I was helping in the House that had ten kids, most of which are four years old and under. Boy did it get crazy! Phew!
But I must have enjoyed it because I volunteered to help out again if they needed me! :D
In the baptism class that I have been attending with the two kids from the Children’s Homes, we have started doing homework, two chapters each week. So far they have completed chapters 1-4, and it takes about an hour to do each chapter. This has been an interesting and fun experience as I have virtually no experience tutoring young children. I learned pretty quickly that they have a short attention span, and I am now learning the virtue of patience. But they’re really great kids and very smart, too! It’s hard to get home from a day at school and sit down again for two more hours to study.
I have joined the praise and worship team at church as a singer! I’m excited to get more involved with this community and my hope is that it will naturally lead to building relationships with more people. Trying to make friends has not been easy.
Another weekly thing that I’m excited about is being an English conversation partner with a girl named Priscilla. She plays bass in the church’s band so we will be seeing a lot of each other every week!
Funny cultural faux-paux time! There was a block party in my neighborhood this past Saturday afternoon, and it was scheduled to start at 3pm. Well, counting ‘Tico Time’ the correct thing to do is arrive late. So, Candace (a missionary here for 6 years) and I went at 3:30 thinking we would be appropriately late, but when we got to the location we found out that we were the first and only ones there! (Apart from the party coordinator, that is.) Oh, silly gringas! We then got to sit and wait for the next hour until more people started to show up. What did I learn from this? Wait to go with a Costa Rican :D
Prayer Requests:
-I haven’t been able to sleep very well lately so please pray that I would be able to find a way to sleep better.
-Continue to pray for relationships to develop more.
Thank you so much for your continued support! I am praying for you all today so please let me know if you have any requests. My e-mail is shaina.lex@gmail.com
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Be blessed!
Tim and Johanna--'grandparents' for the kids in the Children's Homes, also English teachers in the daycare two days a week.
Me, Janita (cooks lunch when teams work at the projects. She's fantastic! And she just got back from a trip to the States where she visited Wisconsin among other states. She said she loved Wisconsin the most ;D), and Candace (she was the intern coordinator but has just passed that job on to another missionary couple in order to focus on other tasks)
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