I am having a great time with the kids here. Playing and being with the kids is part of what I do here and I have a lot of fun with them. There are a couple of kids that really stand out to me and are around me a lot. The first is a five year old little boy named Said. He is very clingy and likes me to help him with many things throughout the day such as getting ready in the morning and washing his hands for meal time. He and his brother Alejandro were neglected and were living on the streets on and off before coming here. The next kid is another five year old little boy named Raul. My parents tell me that I was a lot like him when I was his age. He has bound less energy and it is hard to get him to sit still. Also he is very curious, inquisitive and persistent. Then there is his six and seven year old sisters Maria and Yari who are always very joyful and laughing. Whenever we sit down to watch a movie she is one of the kids who is sitting with me most times.
God has been helping me a lot with learning Spanish here. A big thing I needed a lot of help with is listening well to what someone is saying. Often times someone will tell me something and I will misunderstand or completely not recognize what they are telling me even though I know what someone is saying. Now I am getting lots of practice with that. I am also getting lots of practice with things like sentence structure, proper phrasing of words and vocabulary, just to list a few. Also being able to speak Spanish has become a lot easier and a lot more proficient than before. God has been very good to me and been helping me a lot in this.
