New Volunteers!!!

Before Robyn and Joel left, we had the arrival of several new volunteers! Samantha (Tia Manta as Edwin would say), Page, and Angela. Samantha is our new volunteer coordinator. She is from Virginia and went to Liberty University. She is great. She does her best to fill Robyn's shoes, which are big shoes to fill! (no pun there Robyn!!) Lindsey is from Florida and is here for 2 months. She worked with Miss Aly's class and taught English to the children. She also was in charge of language therapy, which was a great help! She was great to have around! Page and Angela are friends and are from Oregon. Page was a madre assistant. She ended up leaving early and went to work on an organic farm, which is was best for all of us....except the kids. This was in God's plan even though it was a hard time for some of us. Angela was helping me, but after Page left, she became the madre assistant! She LOVES it! Then Laura came not long after Joel and Robyn left. She was part of the team that built our new playground! It was soooo good to see her again and become a part of our team! She is the other madre assistant. She has taken up sewing, which she seems to be doing all the time! The madres are always having her sew and mind the kid's clothes! Roles are starting to change though since I am leaving soon (even though I should have posted this in September ....which is when they came!!). Here are a few pictures of them serving here at the orphanage!

Here Sam is with Danni....Actually we were making pancakes, and he decided to join us!

Lindsey with some of the students in Miss Aly's class.
From left to right: Roxana, Isabel, Marita, Lindsey, Dante, Kevin, and Yuliana.

This is typical of Angela! She is always having fun with the kiddos! Here she is swinging with Jhonatan! Looks like they were both having a fun time!

The other volunteers hosted a girls night and here is Page (Pagina...) giving Yuliana a facial! They had a blast!

Here is Laura with Dante on the field trip to Simbol. I was back at home organizing the presentations I am giving in December and January. They had a great time....and AMAZING Peruvian stories!!!

Volunteer Fun!!!

We ALL (yes Lindsey came too!) went to Salaverry to eat chicken with the honey mustard we just made....from scratch! So we met up with David and his brother José and had a great time, including a game of spoons....which I was the photographer NOT playing!! HAHA!

Here we are headed down the road! Thanks to Pablo (our watchman) we got a picture will all of us in it!!
From left to right: Amy, Angela, Laura, Lindsey, and Sam (Page had left already :(..)

This was before we left. Aren't Angela and Lindsey cool??