today was sarita´s birthday, one of the smallest girls at the crisis center, she´s also one of the cutest ones there. we had a little birtrhday party for her, sang some songs, danced to some music, and ate cake, chips and cookies. we´re more situated in our place now and getting to know the people here better. We work during the day doing tasks here and there. Sometimes we visit the crisis center and take care of the kids. We´re also making an inventory right now of the medical supplies we have, a bunch of hospitals and organizations send medical supplies here and they´re all in this one room and we´re just sorting that out right now too so we can be better prepared when the med clinics come here soon.
This past Saturday we went to a church, which was basically a big, plain looking room. we sang and prayed and heard a semon. it was one of those old fashioned services where the prayers are relaly long your knees start to hurt and the sermons are soo long you´re about to doze off, hahaha. Plus it was in spanish so i didn´t even understand the whole darn thing. there were no instruments for music but people´s voices. It makes me miss my church back at home and hopefully i won´t take it for granted when i´m back at home and singing with the guitar and pinao playing. my spanish is alreayd improving a lot just from speaking to the people and using it everyday, hopefully it gets to a point where it just spits out so easily without even having to tink about it, although some of it does already.
After church we went to this zoo right next to a beach at the lake. I was wondering what kind of animals the zoo would have if they´re already selling dang alligators and jaguars in the market, but they had a lot of cool stuff. There was a freshwater pink dolphin, big jaguars, monkeys, huge piranhas mike parkw ould love to get his hands on, and i even petted an anaconda. i´m still scared to death by thosee. the lake was relaly nice and brinja and some of the other volunteer girls just sun bathed while i got a little canoe and went to explore the jungles. you know those tv shows you see from discovery channel when they´re paddling through the jungle, i felt like that man. It was really. I taught a girl the multiplication table here, some of the girls have a lot of potential, it´s just that the education and the schools here are in really poor condition. sometimes the teachers don´t even show up. i´m going to take a look at the schools here but alreayd i´m giong to appreciate the education system we have in america, for sureee.the adventist hospital and schools here in iquitos, a city about half a million are the best ones available, but also the most expensive ones. anyways, i relaly wish i could post pictures up but i don´t relaly hav4e that much time for any. when i have t
