Friday, March 2, 2012

Tortilla Thursday

Thursday - RISE AND SHINE! It's 7:00am and it's time to get ready for the day. Today we moved on to a different work site that is only approximately 40 minutes away instead of over an hour. On our way to Las Delicias, we witnessed a tractor trailer parallel park, yes that's right a tractor trailer parallel parked right in front of us.. Now that's what I call talent!

At Las Delicias, our project for the day was to paint the exterior of a day care. Unfortunately, there weren't any children there for us to play with, but we really enjoyed Team El Salvador bonding, especially trying to teach Kelly and Keem (Kim) how to paint using a roller.


Part of the painting crew

Project FIAT has a feeding program at Las Delicias where food is provided to all the elderly and the children on their way to school. Each day parents of the children help make the food and serve it. Today we had the opportunity to make tortillas for the children and adults to eat. We were quite the entertainment for the Salvadorans because well, we were terrible at making them and they laughed at us the entire time. It was such a great experience to serve the children their food. They were speaking to us in Spanish so they also used hand motions to show us what to do. It really made us appreciate what blessings we have in our own lives.

After we finished painting the exterior of the day care, we cleaned up and headed to a different work site that Project FIAT has been working on. As soon as we stepped out of the car, a Salvadoran child, Oscar came running up to us, gave out free hugs, and immediately jumped into Kayla's arms. She then gave him a piggy back ride for a while while he held on tight and kept calling her,  "caballo" which means horse.

Steph and Kelly also had the experience of an adorable Salvadoran child jumping over their heads, several times, but no worries, he cleared their heads every time!


When we returned back to the house after our long day of painting and playing with children, we were entertained by a group of folklore dancers from a nearby university. It was clear that the dancers loved what they were doing. It was an enjoyable way to learn more about the culture. The last song, they pulled all the ladies onto the dance floor and tried to teach us how to dance, let's just say we should all stick to painting, well except for Keem with the roller.


We cannot believe we only have one day left in El Salvador. We are learning a lot about El Salvador and the culture, but we are also learning a lot about ourselves and how fortunate we are all for everything we have. We cannot wait to share this experience with all of you when we get back to the US.
--Kayla

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