Sorry this is going to be just another one of those scattered update blogs. I've had a bunch of fun events lately, but they are really necessarily related...
1 - I did a reading program with my school-age girls for the past month where they would get points for reading, more points for reading with a voluteer, and also points for finishing a book. Well they had an incentive of a field trip if they reached 50 points. So last week almost all the girls got to 50 points (or close), so Adam (the other group leader) and I decided to take them on their field trip. We got permission slips filled out and everything of our 10 girls, but then on Sunday only 4 showed up. We decided to take those 4 girls to the TeleferiQo, which is a tram that took us up to the top of one of the mountains where we could see all of Quito. It was a cool experience, but we had to wait SO long to get on - seriously these girls were so patient though. It was cute to get spend time outside of class with them and just love on these 4 girls.
2 - Also last weekend I went over to Doctor Elizabeth's house, who is the director of special ed and the psychologist at the Center. She had all of the volunteers who work in special ed (6 of us) over to her really nice house. Also her two kids who are close to our age, 17 and 25, were hanging out with us too. We were all just laughing the whole time and having fun all together. Also, there was a ridiculous amount of meat - she FILLED the grill up with sausages, pork tenderloin, hot dogs, and some other long sausage thing...it was a lot! It was good though.
3 - Final big event from this last week was the semifinal South American Cup soccer match that Liga (my team!) played in on Thursday evening. Liga lost the first game in Uruguay to this team, but they always play home and away with aggregate scoring. Well, needless to say they wanted revenge. We won 7-0!!! It was amazing. None of the other volunteers could go, so I was planning on meeting up with Doctora Elizabeth's kids but I got there just in time (and there aren't assigned seats) so I couldn't get a hold of them. Also basically the cell phone companies just get so backed up that I didn't get any of their message and they didn't get any of mine until 40 minutes after the game was over. It was okay though, my first sports event "alone," but with so many goals I was friends with the guys around me by the end of the game! I am super excited for the Finals on Wednesday now!
Well I can't believe it is nearly the end of November already...time flies. I am excited for Brennan now to be coming in just a little over a month! I can't believe it. Hope you all have a lovely fall weekend! Love, Taylor
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