Today was day three and I already cannot believe that it's over. Let me do a little recap of what the last three days were like. Bear with me because I am exhausted right now and I know that I promised a video log but my words will have to do for now. I met Allison in Ft. Lauderdale where I basically hopped off my plane grabbed a hot dog and jumped on my next flight. I had the entire row to myself which was awesome because that meant Alli could come and sit with me and we could use the middle seat for all our things. :) It's silly but I'm thankful because it gave us a perfect experience heading out to Guatemala City together.
We arrived in GC and were picked up by Estuardo (Karen's husband - They own and run the orphanage). Estuardo took us to get lunch at a pizza hut and then we went shopping for some groceries for the two days we were spending in the orphanage. We finally made it to the orphanage and dropped our things off. We got a full tour of the whole Princesa Hogar. It is beautiful. Like seriously these girls are going to be living a fairytale life there at the hogar and its so touching to see how so many donations of funds and time and love have made this dream of Karen & Estuardo's come true. They are still finishing up the final touches before saturday. The girls did have lice and we were warned so for the days we were at the girls hogar we didn't wash our hair. So today was day three of dirty hair until we made it to the hotel and that shower was glorious. haha.
All the kids want to touch my camera and want to take photos and see them after I record them. I keep having to remind them "No Tocar Por Favor" which is "No Touching Please." I'm getting along pretty well with my spanish and learning more and more as the days go by. The kids think its hilarious if I misuse a word or mess up the pronunciation. I have been doing A LOT of filming. We walked the boys to school the other day which is a two mile walk and half way there a Taxi Van pulled up and the Profesora with us said in spanish "everyone in the van! hurry! hurry!" it was seriously almost like a scene out of a movie. We piled about 25 kids and like 5 adults plus the drives in the van which we took the rest of the way to school. They don't always do that but when they have the chance they take it. It's quite the hike back up to the hogar too. My legs were feeling it the next day for sure.
I will have to tell you all more about the boys home tomorrow. I'm just so tired I will have to leave you with a few pictures and tell you about how filming is going as well.
Shout out to my dad who's birthday was today... yesterday...! De quiero mucho papi!
Hasta Mañana!
We arrived in GC and were picked up by Estuardo (Karen's husband - They own and run the orphanage). Estuardo took us to get lunch at a pizza hut and then we went shopping for some groceries for the two days we were spending in the orphanage. We finally made it to the orphanage and dropped our things off. We got a full tour of the whole Princesa Hogar. It is beautiful. Like seriously these girls are going to be living a fairytale life there at the hogar and its so touching to see how so many donations of funds and time and love have made this dream of Karen & Estuardo's come true. They are still finishing up the final touches before saturday. The girls did have lice and we were warned so for the days we were at the girls hogar we didn't wash our hair. So today was day three of dirty hair until we made it to the hotel and that shower was glorious. haha.
All the kids want to touch my camera and want to take photos and see them after I record them. I keep having to remind them "No Tocar Por Favor" which is "No Touching Please." I'm getting along pretty well with my spanish and learning more and more as the days go by. The kids think its hilarious if I misuse a word or mess up the pronunciation. I have been doing A LOT of filming. We walked the boys to school the other day which is a two mile walk and half way there a Taxi Van pulled up and the Profesora with us said in spanish "everyone in the van! hurry! hurry!" it was seriously almost like a scene out of a movie. We piled about 25 kids and like 5 adults plus the drives in the van which we took the rest of the way to school. They don't always do that but when they have the chance they take it. It's quite the hike back up to the hogar too. My legs were feeling it the next day for sure.
I will have to tell you all more about the boys home tomorrow. I'm just so tired I will have to leave you with a few pictures and tell you about how filming is going as well.
Shout out to my dad who's birthday was today... yesterday...! De quiero mucho papi!
Hasta Mañana!
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