...(something inspiring)...: ... a funsweetexhaustingsickcompetitive-filled week en mi vida loca ...

Just a quick update on a few of fun things we got to do this week...

Sports day was this Thursday at school. It is a day that I plan for all high school students, and it is just a day full of sports. There were 4 teams that rotated around playing different games against different teams. We played basketball, futbol, dodgeball, and kickball. The kids get so excited and show up with their team color shirt and are ready for a day of competition. One of my fav. things is getting to see them play with different kids and get to know their school mates better because they hardly get to do anything at all with the kids in other grades - so for this day, I mix up the whole high school and put them on teams with all the grades 7th-11th. Some of the kids got a little too competitive and yelled at my refs/me, which was annoying, but most of the kids had a lot of fun and showed good sportsmanship all day. I can really see the kids improving in the different sports, especially basketball - it is SO encouraging to watch.

On Friday after school, we didn't have any plans so we gathered up some games and construction paper and headed up to play with the kids. When we go on Wednesdays we spend time with the kids doing homework, but on Friday we just got to play with them. We showed them how to play Jenga, played a little UNO and old maid. The kids get real bored now during the day because they are out of school for a couple months (breaks are weird here) so we thought it would be fun to surprise them with a "game day". We also got to hold the babies and feed them their bottles before we left to help out a little, it was sweet.

On Saturday, despite my need for sleep, we got up at 7:30AM (on a saturday, yes I can't believe I did it either) and met some people from church and small group for a day of hiking!! There is a national park over looking a beautiful lake just about an hour away. So we drove out there and all agreed (against mine and stephanie's best judgement) to take on the 5 hour hike to the top over look and waterfall. The first stop was a really nice over look where you could see the lake, 45 mins later, a beautiful waterfall, 45 minutes later, a cloud forrest, 45 minutes later, another nice overlook, and another hour later - we had FINALLY reached the bottom. shewwww, I get exhausted all over again just writing about it! haha. But getting to know one another better, the stumbles, the falls (stephanie), the water bottle getting knocked down the river, the lack of wildlife (2 butterflies people), and the random conversations made it all a little more fun! It was a great day of hiking, but next time I think we'll go for the shorter one... :)