We began Wed. early teaching our first class at 10:00 am at the Institute. We wondered if anyone would be there because it is Holy Week here and they have closed the schools down. Three faithful girls arrived:
week - lots of work.
Carlos's mom, Gregory, Olgalidia, Carlos, William, Cati, little boy, Eliana. We have tried to figure out little boy's name but it is nothing either of us can understand or remember. Sure is a cute little tyke though. You might notice that Olgalidia is about 4'10". You forget how short she is until you see her with he kids who are getting as big as she is. She is a great mom.
I hate to think we will leave here and never know what becomes of these people we love so much and it's not like we will ever get back here.
Here are William and Olgalidia's three kids:
(plus the little boy that we don't know who he belongs to) They just take him around like he is one of theirs but he doesn't live with them.
This is such a cute picture of the girls I want to make sure it is never lost so am putting it in the blog.
Eliana and Caty posing for their picture to be taken. They learn to do that here at a very early age! ( I'm not sure how Caty spells her name so you may see it many different ways)
Here is Carlos and his mother(the surprise woman ). She was very nice.
It was such a fun time to spend with the whole family +. Anyway we got there and back home with no problems despite the overload in the back seat. They seem to think nothing of being crammed into small spaces - it happens often here. We won't be picking up the kids for church this Sunday because they are going out to the country to visit their grandmother and next Sunday is General Conference.
We were planning on going to the ward we belong to but ran into one of our students, Sarah, at the temple and her farewell is this Sunday. She wanted us to come out there so that's what we will do.
On Thursday we decided to go do a couple of sessions at the temple because they were having sessions every hour. When there is a vacation here the members come to the temple. I wish we at home were that diligent when we have extra time. There were people there for the 9:00 and 11:00 sessions that we attended. The time went so fast between the temple and our music class that it was soon time to go to Santo Domingo stake. We didn't think anyone would show up because so many people had left the city. But they did! One woman came with a car full of girls that must have looked like our car last night. One of the women put a jar full of something in my music bag and said it was dulce (sweet) but I have no idea what it is. Thank heavens I am not eating sweet things! She is so sweet though, always bringing us different kinds of things and I know she has very little herself.
Friday morning we went to the temple again. I came home after one session because I have things to do here but Scott stayed and still isn't home. We have two Spanish classes this afternoon then hopefully I can persuade mi esposo to take me to PriceMart shopping.
This is a good example of the different skin coloring here. We have alot of fun with these kids. They keep trying to teach me Spanish and every time we come up with a word that they teach in Spanish means something different here than we have learned. No wonder it is so difficult to know what they are saying!
Got home about 12:30 to get ready to pick up the Leavitts for our Los Llanos lesson at 1:15. It's about an hour and a half out there so we have time to talk. Elder Leavitt wants Scott to teach him Spanish as we drive - which is scary the Scott drives anyway! He is taking this Dominican driving much to seriously. Just stay off the road when we get home and you will be safe! There is one boy at Los Llanos that is amazingly gifted and had been through half of the lesson book that he received lastweek - lots of work.
This is a picture of the back seat - just so you can see how we could have missed an extra person!
We had planned to pick up William and his family at 6:30 but just barely got back by then. What a wonderful night that was! To see William again was great - we haven't seen him for months. So funny - Scott had told Olgalidia that we didn't have room in the car to take all of the cousins plus their family. When we picked them Carlos and the little 5 year old boy were with them. They all climbed into the back seat and we started off for the huge mall they wanted to go to. They all looked so cute. When we got out of the car and they all got out, there was this strange woman standing there with them. We had no idea she was in the back seat under all of the kids. Come to find out she was Carlos's mother. Scott said he met her once but I had no idea who she was. Still have no idea who the little boy belongs to. So there were nine in the back seat of the car. Now you see how we could have missed her! We sure love this family.
Carlos's mom, Gregory, Olgalidia, Carlos, William, Cati, little boy, Eliana. We have tried to figure out little boy's name but it is nothing either of us can understand or remember. Sure is a cute little tyke though. You might notice that Olgalidia is about 4'10". You forget how short she is until you see her with he kids who are getting as big as she is. She is a great mom.
I hate to think we will leave here and never know what becomes of these people we love so much and it's not like we will ever get back here.
Here are William and Olgalidia's three kids:
(plus the little boy that we don't know who he belongs to) They just take him around like he is one of theirs but he doesn't live with them.
This is such a cute picture of the girls I want to make sure it is never lost so am putting it in the blog.
Eliana and Caty posing for their picture to be taken. They learn to do that here at a very early age! ( I'm not sure how Caty spells her name so you may see it many different ways)
Here is Carlos and his mother(the surprise woman ). She was very nice.
We were planning on going to the ward we belong to but ran into one of our students, Sarah, at the temple and her farewell is this Sunday. She wanted us to come out there so that's what we will do.
On Thursday we decided to go do a couple of sessions at the temple because they were having sessions every hour. When there is a vacation here the members come to the temple. I wish we at home were that diligent when we have extra time. There were people there for the 9:00 and 11:00 sessions that we attended. The time went so fast between the temple and our music class that it was soon time to go to Santo Domingo stake. We didn't think anyone would show up because so many people had left the city. But they did! One woman came with a car full of girls that must have looked like our car last night. One of the women put a jar full of something in my music bag and said it was dulce (sweet) but I have no idea what it is. Thank heavens I am not eating sweet things! She is so sweet though, always bringing us different kinds of things and I know she has very little herself.
Friday morning we went to the temple again. I came home after one session because I have things to do here but Scott stayed and still isn't home. We have two Spanish classes this afternoon then hopefully I can persuade mi esposo to take me to PriceMart shopping.
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