A Typical Sunday Dinner with the Family

On Sunday night Marc, Claire and I prepared a traditional Italian dinner for our host family and twelve other volunteers. It reminded me of the dinners I would share with my family back home. We prepared garlic crostini, and pasta bolognese. Everyone loved it and had seconds.It was the first time some of our host family had ever eaten pasta. I never knew I could make sauce and boil pasta on a propane tank. Another trick I've learned here. We all sat together in the family room laughing, eating and then watched a movie together. It felt like we were all one big happy family.

At Faraja the children are finished with school and received their report cards today. Marc is dividing them up by ability and we will each take a different group and work on reinforcing the math and reading skills they have learned during the school year. Some of the children are severely delayed and cannot receive the extra help and services they would benefit from. They are lucky to even be able to attend school. We are hoping to work with the more delayed children more intensively over the next two weeks and that the new volunteers will continue our efforts when we leave.

Top to bottom, left to right:
Marc, Amy, Claire, Lucy, Hou, Lauren, Gloria

A warm welcome to Lauren, who joined us from Canada today and Lucy who is joining us from England.

I've set Momma Morra up on Facebook and taught her how to utilize it for networking. We also have a Faraja page set up. Please contact her if you are interested in volunteering or sending in kind donations.

Miss and love.