Our week at a glance

This week I got a chance to be in the school again with the 6th graders and helped them work on an artisan project.  They took glass bottles and filled them with flowers and other adornments that would look pretty through the glass.  Then they took ribbon and other natural adornments and decorated the outside of the bottles.  Here are a few examples.

Here are some girls working on their flower bottles.

When the boys got bored they resorted to these shenanigans.  Notice Elivis is wearing the teachers high heel shoes:)

Having way too much fun.

Some worked harder than others.

Miguel loves the spotlight.

Impersonating Brennan with his huge muscles.

Brennan finally received his birthday packages from home!  What clever wrapping.

Hilary and Jake were super crafty and made this kindle holder from an old book.  Thieves will never find it now.  Jim and Julie were kind enough to buy Brennan a second Kindle after he left his in a taxi never to be seen again.  Maama and Pops gave Brennan some gift cards to Amazon to buy some books for the Kindle.  What amazing presents!  Brennan is excited to get back to reading.

We also enjoyed some cheap wine this week after our regional meeting in Santiago.  At the regional meeting we got the chance to meet all the other Veraguas Peace Corps Volunteers.  Seem like nice people.

At the hotel we stayed at Brennan and I experienced the best shower we've had in the last 5 months.  Come on can you see this shower head and the water was hot!  I ended up taking three 20 min showers within 12 hours.  It was pure heaven.