Friday, the 28th, I had an amazing 22nd birthday. I happen to share a birthday with Wendy, a girl who works in Casa Suyapa. Wendy is on my turno, meaning we get the same free weekend. Since our weekend starts Friday at 8:00am after we drop the kids off at school all of the tios on my turno decided to go out to breakfast in Tegucigalpa on Friday. We dropped them off and then walked straight to the main gate to catch the bus. We took the bus into the city (it's around an hour) and went to eat at a Popusas restaurant, traditional Honduran food. Vicky, my "boss", bought us a really yummy cake which we actually ate before the food because we had to wait for so long. After eating we went to the center and spent the afternoon shopping. At around 3 I parted from the other tios and met up with some volunteer friends. Then that night we all went out to dinner at a really good restaurant called Criollos and then dancing at Bamboo, a really popular dance club. Saturday I had to return to the ranch because I had to work on Sunday. Usually on my free weekend I have Sunday free, but this Sunday was Día de Visitas and all of the volunteers had to work. Día de Visitas happens three times a year and it is the day when all of the kids family (maybe parents, uncles, aunts, etc.) come to visit. It is a really exciting day for the kids, but the volunteers all have to work because we do activities with the kids who don't have visitors. It was a really fun day, but it took away from my free weekend so now I'm super tired. Here are some pictures from the morning of my birthday, I didn't take my camera out at night because I didn't want anything to happen to it, so I don't have any pictures of everyone looking pretty and dancing.
This is me with most of the tios on my turno. The first picture, from left to right: Ada, Elisabeth, Wendy (they are "pequeños" doing their years of service), me, Pancho, Wendy.
The second picture is the same, but with Vicky, my "boss".
There are two Wendys, it was the birthday of the younger Wendy on Friday also.
This is me with most of the tios on my turno. The first picture, from left to right: Ada, Elisabeth, Wendy (they are "pequeños" doing their years of service), me, Pancho, Wendy.
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Happy Birthday! Hope you can get through the next two full weeks! Thinking always of you.
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