Week Four: What I am doing at my Placements

The YAGM group singing at church the first Sunday

Here is a little discription of what I am doing so far:

On the weekends I work with the church.  My duties so far are as follows: Saturdays include cooking and preparing the food for Sunday's after church lunch and doing any little odds and ends of organizing or cleaning.  Sundays include going to church, helping/teaching Sunday school, serving lunch, and playing with the kids (soccer, drawing, singing, and board games).  As I said before I have been playing a lot of soccer!  WOOHOO!  

Side note: It is great to be living a country where everyone (pretty much) plays soccer.  Asking someone if they play soccer is almost like asking someone if they breath.  It is great!  Even some people that I would not has guessed played soccer...do.  It is surprising but in a good way.  At home hardly anyone plays so getting a little game together is pretty difficult...but here you just have to yell out in the street and you have enough people to play.  Plus...no one cares where they play...I saw a very intense game going on in (literally) a corner.  I love soccer. 

  
Three other days out of the week I am working at M.A.M.A (Mis Alumnos Más Amigos), which is a non-profit organization, located in a low income community about 20 minutes away from the church.  It is basically a community center for youth (ages 0-14ish) where they can come and eat lunch and spend time playing.  So far I have been helping with recreational activities, sports, and a little bit of arts and crafts (hopefully I will get more into the arts and crafts as the year goes on).  We mainly play soccer, pool, put together puzzles, and play on the swings. Basically all I have to do is hang out with the kids all day...its a pretty sweet gig.