After spending a day in Dos Brazos del Rio Tigre demolishing the old classroom, we woke up ready to meet the children of this village. We spent the morning going through the gifts we had brought, dividing them by age group. When we arrived, they were so grateful for all of the RHP/Ren t-shirts, key rings, toys, soccer balls, Beanie Babies and sunglasses we brought from the states. We almost wished we brought more.
After presenting the gifts, we went outside to play all sorts of games...soccer (futbol), frisbee, and duck duck goose (pato, pato, ganso!). It was clear the kids were having a blast playing all of these games and taking selfies with all of our cameras. The heat and drizzling rain did not stop anyone from having fun on this day.
We often complain about the AC not working at school, it being too hot outside, or not wanting to run around outside for PE...but on this day, none of that mattered. The language barrier was also nonexistent for these few hours because fun is a universal language. Students from both schools and their teachers were having having a blast. We almost did not want to stop for lunch with our host moms!
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