Jueves – 28
de Junio.
Día 14. “Xochicalco
y Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos”
There aren’t really words
to explain how amazing today was. We woke up to thunder this morning and the
first thing that came to mine “Oh great, wet tennis shoes are my favorite..”
But, it ended up being a beautiful day! In the morning we spent time reviewing
for our test tomorrow, and learning about our horoscopes, in Spanish only! We
weren’t able to go the El Centro for our afternoon classes because of the rain,
but our interviews have been rescheduled for sometime next week. Instead, we
stayed at school and played review games, and human web games, which was quite
interesting, to say the least.
We didn’t
go home after school today; we immediately hopped on a bus for an hour and headed
to Xochicalco (Zo-chi-cal-co), which is an archaeological site that shows the “fusion”
between the ancient Aztec, Mayan, Zapotec, Olmec, Mixtec, and Toltec cultures.
It was very interesting and the sites and views were beyond beautiful. In one
direction we saw the first lake we have seen since we were here and of course
all us Minnesotan kids got pretty excited about that one! (: We climbed
pyramids and even went underground into an observatory where we were able to
witness the extreme intelligence of the ancient astronomers. The views at this
site were unexplainable, almost as great as the smiles on the faces of the kids
on our next adventure…
After
visiting Xochicalco we headed about 20 minutes to an orphanage housing children
and young adults ranging from infants to thirty year old adults. It is called “Nuestro
Pequeños
Hermanos”, which literally translates to “Our Little Sibilings”. This house,
more like community, was donated by the government to give children and young
adults a chance to get a good education at “home” in a dafe environment, and to
promote success after shool. It was the most rewarding day I
have had
since we arrived; it was amazing to see the young ones’ faces as we gave them
gifts of school supplies, pillow pets, chalk, coloring books, and
candy! They were mesmerized by our cameras and just wanted more and more pictures! The hugs were abundant and I can’t wait for tomorrow when we are off to visit another orphanage! (:
candy! They were mesmerized by our cameras and just wanted more and more pictures! The hugs were abundant and I can’t wait for tomorrow when we are off to visit another orphanage! (:
Daily Spanish Lesson #15:
Interviews-
Entrevistas
Lake- Lago
Orphanage-
Orfanato
Community- Communidad
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