These peacocks were just roamin around the place we went sky diving!
My beautiful friend Sophia!! :)
So there you have it! A little glimpse into what I've been up to! I felt guilty for having not written all month! :)
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Pictures of people/places/things/nouns I love here :)
Just to put a few pictures on here for you! :)
We had to eat dinner without utensils as a challenge one night during our training. :)
All of us enjoying our no forks allowed spaghetti dinner!
Sophie's mama painting Claire's nails! She made us the most AMAZING lunch!
We took a walk at a local park near Sophie's house...and there were all these padlocks with couples names written on the, locked to the fence. :)
Me getting ready to bunjee jump!! :) I might have even liked it better than sky diving!!
June interns :)
This is what happens when it rains and we all have to eat dinner inside. :)
Oh, you know...just getting re-barb off the roof of a building... no big deal. ;)
This little dude worked harder than anyone that day!
Crammed in the back of the van like a bunch of..........wait.
The incredibly hard working women of Casa Hogar Bethany
The ginormous tarantula I got a greeting from during a morning job my first week here.
Coffee date with the beautiful Jen :) (Don't mind my face- I had taken a nap and just woken up. lol
Casa Hogar Bethany- LOVE these kids!!!
This beautiful woman is Chelsie- and you need to know her.
Can you believe I didn't take her home?!?!
Veronica- the director's wife and WONDERFUL woman from Casa Hogar Bethany
My girlies from Bethany!
Me and Morham (who's real name is Morgan)
My FAVORITE comida (food) that Vita- one of the dinner cooks here- makes!!
Don't you just wanna pinch his little cheeks?!?!
Such a cool dude. :)
Sometimes I get to be a human jungle gym.
And sometimes I pretend to do hard work. ;)
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One month
So... apparently I blinked my eyes, and a month has gone by.
It's insane how here...each day seems insanely long with many different pieces and responsibilities, but the weeks/months zoom by faster than I care to realize.
-This week the interns I've spent the past month getting to know are (mostly) all leaving, and being replaced by new interns.
-I feel like I'm finally getting to truly know some of the staff here on campus and in the places outside of campus that we serve. It's nice to walk into a home or homeless area and hear, "KELLI!!!!"
-This Back2Back staff is truly phenomenal. It's amazing how this community works and flows.
-My Spanish is (slightly) improving! Although to them I probably sound like a three year old with an incredibly small vocabulary... most of the time I can get my point across without having to pull someone else in to translate. Sometimes "the Americans" even ask ME to translate- which has been pretty exciting. (Trust me- it's nothing impressive... only simple phrases like, "How old are you?" and "Do you have any kids?")
-I feel like I have a cagillion stories to tell... and frankly it's a little overwhelming. So, for now... I just wanted to say I am alive... I am having a fantastic time, I miss you all to pieces, and I will be writing more now that I'm kinda in the swing of things.
It's incredibly overwhelming to have a blog like this, and try to explain everything that is happening... It's just too much to describe.
What I've decided to do is something the groups that come visit us each week do at the end of each day. I will attempt to do one every day, but we'll see how that goes. ;)
It's called your "Picture of the day." It's pretty self-explanitory. lol Basically, instead of trying to write out everything that happened each day, I will attempt to focus on one paticular event, child, circumstance, etc that happened and elaborate on it. Hopefully, this will be less intimidating and will encourage me to write more. :) Also, I hope to actually have a picture to go with my "Picture of the day." (How appropriate!) We'll see how well that goes. ;)
For now, I'm gonna hit the hay. I'm whooped!
Goodnight!
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It's insane how here...each day seems insanely long with many different pieces and responsibilities, but the weeks/months zoom by faster than I care to realize.
-This week the interns I've spent the past month getting to know are (mostly) all leaving, and being replaced by new interns.
-I feel like I'm finally getting to truly know some of the staff here on campus and in the places outside of campus that we serve. It's nice to walk into a home or homeless area and hear, "KELLI!!!!"
-This Back2Back staff is truly phenomenal. It's amazing how this community works and flows.
-My Spanish is (slightly) improving! Although to them I probably sound like a three year old with an incredibly small vocabulary... most of the time I can get my point across without having to pull someone else in to translate. Sometimes "the Americans" even ask ME to translate- which has been pretty exciting. (Trust me- it's nothing impressive... only simple phrases like, "How old are you?" and "Do you have any kids?")
-I feel like I have a cagillion stories to tell... and frankly it's a little overwhelming. So, for now... I just wanted to say I am alive... I am having a fantastic time, I miss you all to pieces, and I will be writing more now that I'm kinda in the swing of things.
It's incredibly overwhelming to have a blog like this, and try to explain everything that is happening... It's just too much to describe.
What I've decided to do is something the groups that come visit us each week do at the end of each day. I will attempt to do one every day, but we'll see how that goes. ;)
It's called your "Picture of the day." It's pretty self-explanitory. lol Basically, instead of trying to write out everything that happened each day, I will attempt to focus on one paticular event, child, circumstance, etc that happened and elaborate on it. Hopefully, this will be less intimidating and will encourage me to write more. :) Also, I hope to actually have a picture to go with my "Picture of the day." (How appropriate!) We'll see how well that goes. ;)
For now, I'm gonna hit the hay. I'm whooped!
Goodnight!
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