Day off and Kayaking

Since I work at the center most Saturdays and Sundays, I have had little time to explore the country. Monday and Tuesday I drove to the famous lake Amititlan and went kayaking. Had a great time, but it went way too fast.

Lot's of good things happening at center. Blanca is a ball of energy and has great gardening and arts and crafts projects. Another group went to a regional therapeutic center and may be able to get three of our younger students placed in all day nursery school (well kind of). Please pray for some of our aggressive boys. They really suck the life out of all of us.

I have been busy sending out the belated Christmas Cards and trying to catch up with friends via email. It is very time consuming, but glad that all my friends have not all forgotten me. Also, working with other friends on clothing drives in the USA. I had become somewhat disenchanted with the process and then I realized how much we have come to rely on the donations. I really enjoy each day seeing who gets Lizzie's Exeter basketball sweatshirt. I have refrained from photographing as it might be too funny and therefore a bit voyeuristic and inappropriate. We do have a lot of laughs, but they are hard to share with the outside world. It would be too easy to mis-interpret and caste a negative light. On the other hand: the negative light has been caste.