In celebration of "El Dia de el Nino" or Kid's Day in Chile, our ward at church had an activity for the children. It was full of fun games and activities. Here some of the older kids are having a relay race with mandarinas (mandarins). Evan would eat 20 or more a day if we would let him and BJ just discovered yesterday why Evan was asking for so many mandarins every day. They are tasty.
The younger kids got to play a round of musical chairs. Musical chairs is so much fun when the music is Cumbia. According to Wikipedia, Cumbia is a Latin American music style that originated in Colombia's Caribbean coastal region. At any rate it is a very pleasant style unlike (no offense) the oompa-oompa sound of Mariachi. Evan got all the way to 5th place in this game until the cute little girl in the pink shirt edged him out of the game.
During another relay race BJ and his friend from West Jordan, Utah who is also living in Chile for about a year, have to eat a banana as fast as they can.
At the end of the activity they handed out balloons to all the kids. What else would a room full of kids with long balloons do...have a spontaneous swordfight. Andrew and Jonathan from Evan's class are having it out.
Each child received a plate of treats and a goody bag. Not to be a Debbie Downer or anything, but things here just don't taste the same. We bought some Cheetos the first week we were here. They were a pale yellow and tasted nothing like the aritficial cheese flavor we are used to. In all honesty, most of the treats in the bag were great and the kids really enjoyed trying some new treats.
Like I was saying, not everything tastes just how you think it might. Evan says, these colorful balls tasted something like Trix cereal, but gross.
Here are some of Andrew's new friends from church. This is Catalina, Javiera, Andrew and Sebastian. The kids here have been so welcoming and have made great efforts to make us feel at home and welcomed. They are very patient with us as we try to learn Spanish and will speak the English they know to help in communicating.
We found out that the youth throughout Chile are planning a celebration to commemorate the 50th year anniversary of the first missionaries from the church in the country. They will be performing a dance in Santiago in the big "futbol" stadium in October. Our stake has been assigned to perform a dance from Bolivia. It is a really beautiful traditional dance. Hopefully we will have more to post about that when the time comes. We are making plans to go to Santiago to be a part of the celebration.
In celebration of "El Dia de el Nino" or Kid's Day in Chile, our ward at church had an activity for the children. It was full of fun games and activities. Here some of the older kids are having a relay race with mandarinas (mandarins). Evan would eat 20 or more a day if we would let him and BJ just discovered yesterday why Evan was asking for so many mandarins every day. They are tasty.
The younger kids got to play a round of musical chairs. Musical chairs is so much fun when the music is Cumbia. According to Wikipedia, Cumbia is a Latin American music style that originated in Colombia's Caribbean coastal region. At any rate it is a very pleasant style unlike (no offense) the oompa-oompa sound of Mariachi. Evan got all the way to 5th place in this game until the cute little girl in the pink shirt edged him out of the game.
During another relay race BJ and his friend from West Jordan, Utah who is also living in Chile for about a year, have to eat a banana as fast as they can.
At the end of the activity they handed out balloons to all the kids. What else would a room full of kids with long balloons do...have a spontaneous swordfight. Andrew and Jonathan from Evan's class are having it out.
Each child received a plate of treats and a goody bag. Not to be a Debbie Downer or anything, but things here just don't taste the same. We bought some Cheetos the first week we were here. They were a pale yellow and tasted nothing like the aritficial cheese flavor we are used to. In all honesty, most of the treats in the bag were great and the kids really enjoyed trying some new treats.
Like I was saying, not everything tastes just how you think it might. Evan says, these colorful balls tasted something like Trix cereal, but gross.
Here are some of Andrew's new friends from church. This is Catalina, Javiera, Andrew and Sebastian. The kids here have been so welcoming and have made great efforts to make us feel at home and welcomed. They are very patient with us as we try to learn Spanish and will speak the English they know to help in communicating.
We found out that the youth throughout Chile are planning a celebration to commemorate the 50th year anniversary of the first missionaries from the church in the country. They will be performing a dance in Santiago in the big "futbol" stadium in October. Our stake has been assigned to perform a dance from Bolivia. It is a really beautiful traditional dance. Hopefully we will have more to post about that when the time comes. We are making plans to go to Santiago to be a part of the celebration.
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