Catching up

A fellow blogger once told me the irony of keeping a blog is that you have time to write when you have nothing to do, but you have when you have great things to blog about, you never have time to record them. Amen! It´s Tuesday and I´m leaving this Thrusday morning. A LOT has happened since the last time entered!

Academically, I have finished classes and exams. Praise God! And I am graduating this Friday. :)

In the prefecta life so much more has been going on to catch up on. Last week we celebrated Dia de los Niños (Kid´s Day). Although there is only one national holliday a year for this, the prefectos celebrate it twice a year. A the end of each semester they go to DIF (a local home for over 200 children who have been abused and abandoned) and throw a party for all the kids!

It was incredible! Because of the sensitivity of some of the cases and for privacy reasons, we weren´t able to take pictures. But the night before we got a great shot of us stuffing 5 piñatas and over 200 candy bags for the kids. More than piñatas, we brought the kids toys and had a LARGE field day filled with food and music just for them. Every semester this is something both the kids at DIF and residents/prefectos look forward to. Some residents come if they can to help out with the event while others donate toys and money to buy toys for the kids.

This year was great! Probably one of the best experiences I´ve had with the prefectos yet.

Also in this past month: we celebrated the birthdays of the month (Kareokee and Cumpleaños), gave out awards and dulces for best averages per floor in the residencias, held a talent show night, and had a HUGE Hawaiian Day cookout at the pool the Sunday after 3rd parcials.

In addtion, I began to experience more of the administrative role of the prefecto here as well. Since Semana Santa we´ve been in the process of completeing reservations for next year for each of the residents. Then, we had prefecta selections (that deserves an entry of its own for later). And now, before everyone leaves, we have to do Control de Cuartos (similar to RCFs) for each floor.

I also had my last night of duty the other week. It was sad, but well spent. One girl got sick at 4am and we had to call the Doctor. While the girl was not doing too well then, she´s fine now. And I´m especially thankful this happened at the end of the semester and not at the beggining, otherwise I´m not sure how far my spanish would have brought me.

Now it´s time to continue to prepare the hall to close up.
Tommorrow the Residencias are throwing a Desperida for me at 5. So far the prefectos have already thrown a surpise going away party and my residents took me out Salsa dancing :) But will save that for a final entry tommorrow on Desperdida :)

¡Buenas noches!