My apologies for the extended plogging (picture blogging) absence. The photos always take a long time to upload and I rarely sit in front of the computer for long periods of time.
All is well here! I am continuing to enjoy my work with the children in speech therapy. Now that their school year is over, we have been able to do more small group therapy sessions, where we get to focus more on social skills and peer communication. The kids are just so much fun to work with. I love to hear "Me toca? Me toca?" everytime I walk into the baby house, as everyone wants it to be their turn for speech therapy. :)
With the special education team, we have been interviewing all of the children in special ed in hopes of learning about what their individual hopes and dreams are for themselves. It has been so great to get some goals written and set plans in motion to have them be as self-reliant as possible.
In other news, I have been given permission to be a driver for us volunteers. Today, I got to drive the home's microbus to Chimaltenango. Definitely thankful that my dad insisted that us kids learn how to drive stick shift. Though it was an adjustment for me having to look out for
tuc-tucs, motos, and the numerous potholes, it was pretty noneventful. To learn the roads better, I'll take a couple more trips with one of the home's official drivers in the passenger seat before I'll go out on my own. I definitely don't plan to drive any of the kids, but it will be nice to be able to drive some of the volunteers if some of us need to go into one of the towns for various projects.
Here is a look at what has been happening here in Guatemala over the past month! :)
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| Our normal scenic walk to the speech therapy room :) |
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| With the OT and the PT here at NPH |
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| Dia del niño celebrations |
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| Lea (the volunteer special education teacher) and I were in charge of the dancing station! |
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| On the last day of school, the Montessori kids got to have a slumber party in their classroom. |
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| We made pizza... |
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| And watched movies... |
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| And SOME of us got to sleep. |
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| A project with a small group of kids |
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| We made pancakes! |
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| I'm amazed by how confident these little guys are in the kitchen |
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| Enjoying some one-on-one time with the PT. |
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| This girl. :) |
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| A bonfire outside of Casa de Bebes |
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| Running to help me find her siblings for our Family Project |
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| We made pizza. The girls did a great job of cutting up the ingredients. |
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| Love this little guy! I call him my hermanito. :) |
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| Celebrating a cousin's birthday. |
