Happy 4th of July!

7.4.10

WE LOVE AMERICA!!

We celebrated in Ayora, a smaller town than Tabacundo, with other volunteers in a large field with beer, bbq, other "American foods". I brought oreos, yummm!!

On the way to the field I spent about 1 hr with hannah trying to find the entrance to walk down to the field but we couldn’t find the “door”. Supposedly there was a small door with writings on it, it was in the middle of a stone wall, and then there were narrow stairs going down. We saw one door that had stairs going down but looked dangerous or as if no one really goes down those stairs, so we continued to walk and then ran into another volunteer. Eventually we went down the stairs and joined the party. We played some baseball with a soccer ball, so we played kickball basically, and invented some other games. It was nice to have some kind of invented American bbq and just speak English and hang out with other volunteers.

After the party, Hannah and I went back to my house and then went to Angela’s grandmother’s house for another celebration with all of the families from Tabacundo. Mama Dios and Daniel (her grandson) joined us, as well as Jordan, her mom and sister, Angela’s family, and Hannah (her parents were unable to come). We told funny stories about how I left my cell phone in Angela’s father’s van the second day we had them, as well as some posters for a presentation a week later (Angela did that). We made smores which were amazing, and ate pizza that Angela made with her family. Overall it was a really fun day, viva America!