CEVA

The last week of January, the HCAs and I volunteered for a children's camp for ages 4-13 run through the diocesean office. It was a lot of fun, although ridiculously exhausting. We planned activities, played games, talked and sang about God,(typical Bible-school like themes for each day), and took fieldtrips to an ecological museum, a neighboorhood pool, and the zoo in Santiago, and had a water and mud soaked day provided by the fire department). The kids that we worked with live in a rural area of Calle Larga called Valle Alegre (Happy Valley). Most of their parents work in the uva (the grapes that fill the region) and are left home alone all day with nothing to do so they showed up each day just filled with joy and energy. I worked with the youngest age group (4-7). They were a handful, but never stopped making me laugh. These are my little buddies Fidel (who happens to live on Castro street, coincidence?) and his sister Antonia.