Saturday, May 11th

On May 11th, we woke up and got ready to attend the Mothers Day celebration at the Jungle School. We headed to Kim's house around 7:30 to be there to help Kim load the cakes into the van. We headed up to the school where we set up the chairs and everything for the celebration. The mothers arrived at the school and were given numbers to wear on their shirts. If their number was picked they were named "mother of the year". The celebration started with a welcoming and consisted of games, songs, and even ballet routines. A couple of the games that the mothers played included musical chairs, throwing a syringe and balloons to try and pop one, and a singing competition. The girls did an amazing ballet routine for everyone and one of the classes put on a mothers day skit. After games were played, speeches were given and prizes were awarded lunch was passed out. Lunch consisted of chicken, rice, and bread. Along with lunch, pepsi was served and the cakes that we made with Kim. Everything was very delicious and it seemed that everybody had a great time, I know I did. After we finished cleaning up from the celebration we took the van back to the orphanage. At the orphanage we worked with the kids on their homework. Ms. Edwards worked with Carolina, and Francisco on fractions while I helped Ana do her subtraction and addition homework. The kids had youth group at three so we caught a ride to the church with them and then walked home. After taking some time to relax we decided to go out to dinner at the Downtown Grill again. After dinner we came home and went to bed to rest up for our trip to Cayos Cochinos.