Yesterday, however, all the internas got to go on a field trip around town, and I got to go with them! Their life here is so structured that they rarely leave the school, except to go home, so most of them don't know much about Santa Rosa. This field trip was basically a really long walk around one side of town, so they could have some exercise other than the usual PE class and a change of scenery. We walked down to the lower area, away from downtown, and took a cooler full of snacks and some cookies. We stopped in a dry riverbed/drainage ditch/soccer "field" to rest, eat, and play, then came back. We were gone about two hours, and had to walk back during a thunderstorm, but it was worth it! Here are some of the pictures from the walk (by the way, you can click on the pictures to enlarge them):
Here's the line of internas stretching all the way down the street just outside the school, with Sor Marisela leading the way.
When the two carrying the cooler got tired of carrying it, two behind them would pick it up. I was very surprised at the lack of whining.
This is where we're headed, just on the other side of all the houses on the right side.
The drainage ditch/dry riverbed/soccer field also is used as a (non-commercial, anyone-who-wants-it-can-take-it) quarry.
Here are the girls lined up for Popsicles and cookies.
Here are Maria Luz and Delmis, actually very true to life. Super silly and super serious, but best friends nevertheless!
Another view of the soccer field part of it. At the top of the mountain is another quarry and also the city's dump. Yum.
Luckily, we left to go home before the dry riverbed became a wet one, but here are Yosselyn and Rosa Lillian, walking back up one of the few paved roads in the city. The rest are caliche or cobble-stoned. I think the cobble-stoned streets are very cute, but I hate driving on them. The building at the top of the hill is our school!
Here I am with Mirna, at a bad angle, rounding out the end of the group.
The sisters said they're going to try to make these outings a weekly thing (weather permitting), which I think is a terrific idea.
That's all for now, folks! Hasta luego!
2 comments:
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Hi, Molly!!
I am so impressed and intrigued by what you are doing. I pray for your safety every day, and I will start praying for a solution to your computer problem. I am devoted to Our Lady of Carmel through the scapular, so I was very delighted to hear about the celebration. Mary is so instrumental in our salvation because of her fiat. It was she, and she only, whom God chose to enflesh the Word. What if she had said "no"? It's not like another lady was in waiting. We owe her such gratitude. She is co-redemdrix with Our Lord. She is a major player in the fullness of Truth!
Anyway, I am totally in awe that you are speaking in Spanish, something I have always wanted to do.
I am glad to be able to write to you. We will start family prayer for you to get computers.
God bless you. Hang in there!
Love,
Amy Maloney
P.S. In the meantime, couldn't the girls take regular turns to learn the processes you want them to know? Trade off each day or periods of time (consistently)?
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