Miss Rita, Miss Ratita...

So yesterday I started the whole House Mom around noon. It was a long day of playing outside with the kids for 3 hours in the sun! I am SO tan, it's lovely. That was just a sidenote. ha ha!
The kids I was watching/playing with age-ranged 4-8 years old. Around 10 of them. Fun stuff.
We did other things, I helped with cleaning, laundry, serving food, changing clothes, making sure the kids behaved.
It was great, hard, tiring, and difficult with the language barrier. I think it would make a world of a difference if I were able to just say what I needed to say to them in spanish but I don't know enough spanish to do that. So yeah. Plus, the house I was in were younger kids and then 12-15 year olds and they are all very self -sufficient. They in face take care of the little ones, I mean, besides the house mothers! They are very helpful. I felt like I was not much help but I hope I was more help than I thought I was. It was good though to watch and observe and see how things are done.
I hope I get to be in the other house before I leave just to see how it is with the different ages. There are more older ones in the other house than younger. And I feel like I am more equipped to communicate to them than I am the younger one's that do not know any english whatsoever.
We shall see how it all turns out.
Tonight was Azucena's quincinera or however it is spelled, and that was an interesting experience. I felt like I was running around like a little kid. Well, I was for a while because the kids thought it would be funny to steal my bracelet and run around outside in the cold for me to follow them. But yeah, ha ha!
Tomorrow we are going camping with some of the youth from the church. I am sleeping in the van. They only sleep on a tarp and last time I went to that place, they had ants hardcore. I'm not messing with ants. No me gusta! And then we'll return Saturday before or around lunch.
And that's when I have to finish up my books hardcore because Sunday night or Monday I will be starting in the other house for the week! Yikes!
I think that's all I have to say right now. I know it's not much of my feelings but right now that's all because I am tired and my cough is persistent and I need to go to sleep!
Oh yeah, I straightened my hair, pictures to come, and most of the kids were all like "No bueno your hair" and just like that, ha ha ha! The older ladies and girls said it was pretty so yeah.
I like my curls better too.
Much love sent to you =]