jugar 'americano'

I wish I had a picture, but I'll just have to tell the story...

After lunch, a bunch of the grandkids of the family I live with in Los Higos were at the house. And one of the girls started to get impatient, saying to the rest of the kids, "Come on, let's go play 'americano'."

I asked, "You play 'americano'?"

"Yes."

"How do you play?"

"Well, one of us is Arlene, and one of us is Andre and another is Sandra... [and she kept listing different Americans that have come to Los Higos]."

"And what do you do?"

"We all have water bottles," she said as she and another girl hold up used pop bottles filled with water.

After laughing that off, I asked, "What else do you do?"

"Sometimes we speak English without knowing what we're saying."

ha, ha.

An eye doctor from Ohio came on this outreach and has been going from community to community to do eye exams. He came to Los Higos yesterday, along with Dr. Fernando, and they did a joint medical/ optical outreach. A lot of people in Los Higos were able to take advantage of the low cost eye exams and practially free glasses and here are some pictures of people sporting their lenses.

Ramon with bifocals which he says are only for reading:

Josefina with reading glasses:

La Negra with glasses to be used all the time (in one eye she couldn't see anything, now she says she sees something, and the other eye sees better, too):

Yan Carlos' birthday

I went to a birthday party yesterday for Yan Carlos. It was pretty cute.

They held it in the pink house and had lots of balloons and streamers up. Yan Carlos was all dressed up (as shown in the picture of him holding a goat). The kids all danced, which was so cute, because even the little ones know more or less how to dance merengue. And they had a pinata.

The picture below is of Pancho and Yisenia's baby girl all dressed up for the party.

another knitting fashion show

Last sunday we had another knitting fashion show. We had even more girls involved and in an even smaller space. The picture below shows the people that crowded into the chicken coop church to wath the event. (Origianally we'd planned to hold the event on the basketball court, but because of rain we had to change locations).



The girls themselves came up with a dance to perform. The only rules I gave them was that they had to dance to Christian music and couldn't do anything scandelous. In practice the dance was pretty tame, but, unfortunately, it was a bit scandelous at some points (typical dominican dancing), but I may have been the only one who thought that.

Each girl received a gift. I'd received personal hygiene kits from the Clear Lake Church of Christ when they visited last February, so I put those in the gifts, along with a ball of fancy yarn.

Cristian, Andre, and Franddi pose for photos afterwards.