Friday, October 26, 2007

goodbye party

last night my tia threw a goodbye dinner party for me, rachel, and phil. it was at her house, with her 3 kids, her husband, her mother, and 3 out of 12 of her siblings. i was really nervous that it would be too frustrating or awkward (or both) to be enjoyable, but somehow everything worked out fine and we had a perfectly wonderful evening. this is in part thanks to phil's ability to speak spanish and to rachel's ability to make everyone laugh (usually at her expense). we exchanged gifts, addresses, and a few tears before rachel, phil, and i had to catch a cab home.

today will be my last day at the hogar comunitario with the kids. i wanted to blog now because i know when i get home this afternoon after having to say goodbye and i have to start packing, ill be too heartbroken to blog. i spent most of yesterday preparing my final activity, which will be painting a bench. the only plastic lawn bench i could find was $50, so (thanks to rachel's brilliant suggestion) i went to the local home-depot-ish store and bought wood to make my own. phil had to help me build the bench because i don't know squat about wood or benches. all things considered, it turned out pretty great. today the kids will (one by one) put their hand prints on the bench, unless i come up with a more creative idea in the next hour. this way, we'll have a fun last day and there will be something beautiful left behind for them to remember me by.

i get home pretty late tomorrow night, so (if you live in chicago) hopefully i'll see you sunday!
thank you for reading this and for commenting and thanks anat for making this for me in the first place. i'll start this back up when i'm travelling again.

pura vida <3

1 comment:

AC said...

all those years at tavor and you still dont know how to make a wooden bench? im ashamed...