Dia del Ninos!

Children's Day was filled with fun, excitement, and many pinatas. Darrell spent the day with the Elementary kids watching their kids program, eating delicious food, and manning the four or five pinatas. Lots of fun and lots of chaos, but the kids loved it!

Karen traveled with the High Schoolers to a community just up the mountain from Siguatepeque called La Tigra. We brought one pinata for each grade, cake (tres leches), and homemade nachos for the kids there. Their school was only two rooms and a makeshift soccer field, but the kids had so much fun playing games with our students, getting piggy-back rides, listening to Bible stories, and of course busting open a pinata.

Karen was so impressed by her tenth grade students. They really took charge and ran the whole day since her Spanish is not very good, and the kids there did not speak any English. They organized many fun games for the kids, manned the pinata, and shared Bible stories with them. They made Karen so proud to be their teacher. She also enjoyed spending time outside of the classroom with her students.

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We took a bus to the community of La Tigra, don't worry we had an actual bus driver.

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The kids there were so excited to spend the day with us, we sang silly songs and put on a skit for them before breaking into smaller groups.

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Grade 10 went with Karen. We played lots of fun Spanish games, gave them piggy-back rides, balloons...

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...and of course a pinata!

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After games and the pinata, we served the kids homemade nachos for lunch.
Grade 7 (top right) also had a good time at La Tigra.


Candy, one of the grade 10 students, brought stickers to give to the kids and it was a huge hit!
Karen got lots of practice asking the kids which color sticker they wanted, she definitely knows her colors in Spanish now.