DAY 12 Monday May 25:

Kate…

Today, we woke up in Santa Rosa.  Seeing that it was our last day in El Transito, we had a lot to do!  We started off eating breakfast at another woman’s house from the church.  After that, we made our way back to the house to grab all of our gifts and prizes for the kids.  Because it was our last day with them, we decided we wanted to play a fun game.  We came up with our own version of Jeopardy.  In this game, everyone had a partner and we had six different categories.  These included saying the colors in English and Spanish, saying the question words (who, what when…) in English and Spanish, answering questions in English, and translating English answers.  For each category, there were seven choices: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 points.  At the end, the top four teams with the most points were our winners.  For these winners, we had t-shirts or hats.  We were also able to hand out two starbursts for each boy and one starburst and a cute hair tie for each girl.  Overall, they seemed pretty happy.  We took pictures with all of the kids and said our goodbyes.  It was kind of sad.  Many of them came up to us after and gave us hugs and kisses.  Too cute. 

After class, we were a little sad, but were happy that we were able to give them the opportunity to teach.  While hanging out on our hammocks, Jorge, the captain of the El Transito baseball team, came over.  I had promised to give him the six baseball mitts and 4 baseballs that I brought.  The baseball gear was donated by a few guys from the Rice baseball team, so thanks guys!  We made our way to the baseball field to hand over the gear.  We were able to take a picture with them and watch a bit of their practice.  Alminton joined us on the trip and of course, while watching the practice, wanted to have another photo shoot.

Then, we had a quick lunch and went back to the house.  This is when we both passed out for 2 hours.  Oops.  We were awaken by our neighbor, Julio, playing the xylophone.  LOL.  Randommmm.  We woke up and prepared for our final class with the older kids.  We decided to just have a fun class and play musical chairs.  Whoever was the last one standing when the music stopped was allowed to re-enter the game if he or she could answer something we had gone over.

After the game, we all just hung out, ate sour patch, played volleyball, and took pictures.  Everyone wanted to go to the beach and play volleyball and soccer, so we decided to quickly pack up our stuff.  It was funny how we told everyone to meet us at the beach but instead they just waited on our porch while we were in the room packing.

After we finished packing, we made our way to the beach. GLORIOUS.  We played soccer for awhile, swam, played more soccer, watched some volleyball, and swam some more.  Then, some of the older guys had a little three vs. three game going on.  They asked us if we wanted to play and we said yes, making it a fun little 4 vs. 4 game.  Beth and I were on the same team.  Our team ended up winning 2-0. eth has some pretty awesome battle wounds for proof and I had a goal and Beth had an assist.  Very nice!

After a fun by hard work out, we took our last swim in the ocean for the day and made our way back to the house, only a two-minute walk or so.  For dinner, we walked across the street to Ronal’s house and had an awesome fish dinner!  After saying out goodbyes and taking one last picture, we got our stuff and made our way to Santa Rosa.

Overall, a very sad but warm and loving, relaxing but busy, and beach soccer-filled day!