Monday 29th November 2010…a lesson in humility!!!!

Linda and Guy employ a wonderful lady called Catalina to come and clean their casa on Saturday’s and they have become friends.

Now Catalina is an interesting and diverse lady her other job is a kindergarten school teacher…

She has 5 girls and 5 boys ages 3 – 5 years in her little school room….Linda found out that these children are in the rural area outside of SMA and really are very poor and she mentioned this to her daughter in Tucson, Teri and her husband Jason…

So the outcome of this was that Teri and Jason bought and put together 10 gift packages consisting of warm clothes, gloves, hat, toy and a stuffed animal for each child and I stopped by their home and picked up these gifts and brought them here to SMA.

So today was the day we were going to the school to distribute the gifts….one of Linda’s other friends, Jaime, was invited to be the chauffeur and translator for us and off we went.

Now let me tell you how Catalina gets to her school every morning…..she takes a bus from her home for about 35 minutes, then she walks another 30 minutes to the school and the same for the return journey.

The school is about 7km outside of SMA then another 7kn on dusty windy narrow tracks…

The one roomed school and Catalina….

The school was really in the middle of no where and the room was very clean and decorated so special!!!

Catalina!!!

Look at that face!!

I have never seen anything like these 10 kids they each sat patiently in their chair watching as each of them received the care package, no crying, no pushing…just smiles!!!!

Sit back and enjoy this as much as we did!!!!

Above is Guy below is Jaime!!

Guadalupe was a little shy!!

Linda and Guy brought some drinks and I brought some donuts and we all had a little refreshments!!!!

Moms and Grandmas came too!!!!

What an incredible morning just made us all realize what the true meaning of giving and Christmas means!!!

The kids were so great..the Mums so appreciative and the memories will stay with us for a long time!!!!

After we came back I went to Casa Hogar as I had promised I would do my annual window washing…all the buildings it takes me usually three days!!!

It was going well but I was getting tired so I had to call Luce for back up!!!!!

Soon some of the older girls including P & D came home from school…

I stayed for about three hours and will go back tomorrow….said good bye to everyone then drove down town and took a ten minute break sitting in the Jardin and looking at the beautiful church that is the main landscape for miles around!!!

I was told there was a big soccer game taking place and I found the stadium, the field was not that great but the crowd was really into it…

The 3 most important men on the field…OK so I am a little biased!!!

Here you don’t buy a bag of chips…..you just buy ONE chip!!!!

See the church!!!

Home by 7pm what a long but glorious day…that tea is going to taste good!!!!