Day 4

Cleaning the shoe cupboard

I am now into day 4 of 29 and have so far successfully survived this trip! Today I went with the younger children to supervise them at church. The people that ran it were so lovely and I practised by broken spanish-english with them to have a reasonable conversation. We got picked up in one of the vans and managed to cram all 40ish kids in! Quite an experience really and again indicates to me that road rules here are a bit different. Back at the orphanage the children are testing the volunteers as their "mama" has left to go to Mexico City for a few days and meet her husband. Pam and Allan are the couple that run the orphanage and rarely take time off. However, Allan has been away for 6 weeks so they are meeting in Mexico City for a few days off together.