Orange Juice by the Liter

Shannon and Bryan enjoying their liters of OJ while we were out to lunch last weekend.

outdoor kid pics

Jennifer

Raileni with Bryan's hat
Jose Luis and Luz Maria

Valentines Day

All students wore Red, White or Pink for the Valentines Day party at the English Institute. Here is one of the English Level 2 classes with their new intern-teachers- Shannon and Sara.

One of the English Level 1 classes with their teachers- Jazmin and Rachel
Valentine BINGO

Jose Luis and his prize- a giant heart sucker

Nicol and Marcelis in the English 2 class

Valentines Bags that each student made the day before

English 1 students filling the Valentine Bags with Valentine cards for each student

Sheila, Yanelca and Julisa stuffing Valentine cards

Santos' Valentine House created out of Red and Pink foam pieces

Classroom Construction

2 new classrooms are being built (and a kitchen expansion) on the far side of our first floor at the English Institute ...here's the progress

A Bad Hair Day???

Today Sara (our volunteer here for the week from Kansas) and I helped to take out some of the girls' braids so they could wash their hair and get ready for church ...here are Indiana, Marianny and Jessica with their fros after we took out their braids and brushed it out.

Jessica and Marianny before heading off to wash their hair

Marianny in Bryan's hat

2nd floor

construction on the 2nd floor of the kids home is coming along ...its time to pour the roof!

New Pavilion

Bryan in the rafters of the new pavilion that was built these past few weeks.

more manicures ...

the 2 oldest girls at the orphanage on our manicure morning, Nicol and Carolina

me giving Nicol her manicure

Dona Nena primary school

Our Indiana group taught English lessons in the mornings at Dona Nena primary school this past week.

Here is the 1st grade class singing the Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes song ...
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Moncho and Marianny in their 2nd grade class working on a worksheet with a classmate

Cristofer in pre-1st grade

the pre-1st grade class holding up their coloring pages

Donations!

Last week's volunteer group- from Indiana, Tanya- from England, along with Bryan and I on the 4th floor of the English Institute.

Below- the group sorts donations of clothes and other supplies that they brought for the orphanage.