Today at the village we started with painting the girls nails they loved it. I painted two different girls nails and then one of the girls wanted to paint mine. It was so pampered. I said I was warm, so out of no where as I was getting my nails painted a damp t shirt arrived for me to put on my arms to cool me down. I can't even explain to you how delicate they are and how much the aim to please. After messing up a nail and running out of polish remover Anna used her shirt to scratch off three mistake. I wanted to encourager not to ruin her clothes but at the same time I didn't want to offend her. I was really inspired with their worth of material things being so low and it made me realize that I could really learn something from that. My happiness in her eyes was far more important then the shirt she had on and the blew my mind. Here I am struggling to figure out which shirts to leave behind for them and she is ruining her clothes she does have to give me as close to perfect as possible. Wow.
At lunch time we got to eat with the boys and enjoyed authentic tacos. Num! When I walked into the cafeteria where the boys had already started they started tapping spots to have me eat with them. I put my plate down next to a boy named Nicholas who has motioned for me to sit next to him and I turned around to go grab a chair. Before I could even take a step a chair was ran into my leg, gently of course. He had stood up and pushed his chair to me and stood to eat the rest of his meal. Talk about an amazing heart melting moment. After I finished eating and went into clean my plate the same boy was out there and insisted on cleaning my plate for me. [Insert second heart melt episode here]. I think I mentioned it already but these kids have such goods manners when it comes to respect and treating ladies right. Again wow!
After that the village was pretty low key. I colored, sang with one of the older boys, and played games with Louise.
One amazing moment was when Carlos an older boy talked about his life and really reminded us why the village exists and how hard life in Honduras can be. He told us he had a friend who died in a fire when Carlos ran to go get help the building exploded and he ended up in a coma for two weeks. And then he shared about not knowing who is dad is. He is an artist with great drawing skills and it was just nice to get to be a listening ear for him.
To finish off the night we went to Saturday church service. It was so cool! All the things discussed for the most part were on the screen in Spanish so i used the opportunity to try and translate and work on my vocabulary. But, boys am I terrible... I loved singing the worship songs in Spanish though with the words. It was overall a nice day. Everyone is getting pretty tired and exhausted from the heat but I have high expectations that great things are still to come and we will all overcome the struggles to do great things!
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