Field Trip Fridays

Summer has now come to an end here in Chile and school has started back up for the kids. (It's still a million degrees outside though so my summer is still going strong) With the girls back in school, the hogar is changing as well. It was really relaxed during the summer with lazy days and lots of playing outside. While I am excited to see more structure come back with homework time and picking the girls up from school, I am sad to see summer fun go. 

During the summer we would go to the pool every Thursday with all of the girls. I couldn't go most of the time because I have Spanish classes on Thursday, but the few times I did make it we had the best time. It's so fun to watch a kid getting excited about a pool. It's literally the greatest thing in the world to them and they were all so cute in their bathing suits. Everyday Thursday after lunch when they put them on they would run up to us and show off their suits. Even after the 10th time of seeing a 5 year olds little neon green one piece I still wasn't pretending to be excited when she proudly showed it off to me.

The girls sleeping on the bus there... I just thought they looked hilarious.
If you put them on a bus or a car they all fall asleep in 10 minutes.

Cheesin it.

S and I in the pool

Playing in the pool

Tia Bri and I

We also had a field trip of some sorts on Fridays. My favorite one was the trip out of the city for about an hour to a random lake and camp site. Sixteen girls and 4 tias, including Briana and myself, loaded up in a mini van and headed out. We had a pinic by the lake and then everyone swam for hours. It was a perfect day, sometimes their lives are so weird and complicated and that day they were just kids playing at a lake. Smiling, laughing and having fun. It was perfect.