Hello everyone! Today was a lot of fun because we had our American party with the teens, in honor of Independence Day. We had a party with American style hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, soda, etc. Also we had an American football (it was the junior size, but that's the best that we could find), and an American baseball and gloves (actually it was a softball and we were still using baseball gloves, but whatever)! The teens really enjoyed the food, and they really enjoyed trying their hand at these American sports. Most of the boys learned how to throw a nice spiral pass with the football, and they were all pretty good at catching the ball. The softball with baseball gloves was a different story however. It was extremely difficult to get the ball to stay in the glove. At one point Gabriela threw me a pass that was over my head. I tried to catch it and it hit right in the center of my glove, but in my clumsiness I somehow dropped it and it hit me in the face, giving me a bloody nose! She felt terrible but it really wasn't her fault. Anyway once I got my nose to quit bleeding, I was fine. We also had a trivia game for the teens that was our version of "Jeopardy". Everything was about America and there were different catagories and points levels for the teams to choose from. The catagories were: Geography, History, Sports, Art & Music, and Miscellaneous. It was a close game and I think the winner was ahead by 1.5 points. Last but not least, we had plenty of American music. I made a playlist on my iPOD for the evening with a bunch of different artists even including country. Let's just say that they have a lot of good music here, but none of it is even close to country, so this was way different! Anyway I think that about sums up tonight. Talk to y'all soon!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Day 36 Friday July 2nd 2010
Hello everyone! Today was a lot of fun because we had our American party with the teens, in honor of Independence Day. We had a party with American style hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, soda, etc. Also we had an American football (it was the junior size, but that's the best that we could find), and an American baseball and gloves (actually it was a softball and we were still using baseball gloves, but whatever)! The teens really enjoyed the food, and they really enjoyed trying their hand at these American sports. Most of the boys learned how to throw a nice spiral pass with the football, and they were all pretty good at catching the ball. The softball with baseball gloves was a different story however. It was extremely difficult to get the ball to stay in the glove. At one point Gabriela threw me a pass that was over my head. I tried to catch it and it hit right in the center of my glove, but in my clumsiness I somehow dropped it and it hit me in the face, giving me a bloody nose! She felt terrible but it really wasn't her fault. Anyway once I got my nose to quit bleeding, I was fine. We also had a trivia game for the teens that was our version of "Jeopardy". Everything was about America and there were different catagories and points levels for the teams to choose from. The catagories were: Geography, History, Sports, Art & Music, and Miscellaneous. It was a close game and I think the winner was ahead by 1.5 points. Last but not least, we had plenty of American music. I made a playlist on my iPOD for the evening with a bunch of different artists even including country. Let's just say that they have a lot of good music here, but none of it is even close to country, so this was way different! Anyway I think that about sums up tonight. Talk to y'all soon!
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Somehow I'd missed seeing this when I commented about the pix of the precious baby. I'll bet they didn't know what to think of country! Your 2 bros don't even know what to think of country... ok, so they do know what to think.... hee hee hee......
ReplyDeleteI'm glad y'all had so much fun. Were the 'American style' hotdogs & hamburgers the same as here? Is this a typical 4th of July tradition for this particular youth group? I'm guessing it wasn't quite the same w/o Dad's chili & fireworks over the lake. But, I'm sure it was great to share our culture w/ them a little bit. Kids love to do something different! It's like Mom says, kids like to 'experience' things! So glad you got to join their festivites. So sorry about the nose.... Wonder if everyone's as prone to bloody noses as the Cross'....
As you can see, I have TONS of questions! So glad you're keeping us updated. D's glad you're letting us see your trip by using his camera-- I think it makes him feel like he's helping w/ the mission. :)
See you soon!!
Rach