Today Hilary and I made some of the angel necklaces and keychains for Friday´s Peter's Walk presents. We worked with two of the girls from Casa Hogar. At first, working with them was a little awkward, because they didn't speak any english, and it was hard to know what to say. I speak a little bit of spanish, and Hilary doesn't speak spanish at all; we taught them how to make the angels via body language and numbers (ex, "dos," point to knots = tie two knots.) After a while, though, we started feeling more comfortable around each other. We asked basic questions, like, "What television program were you watching next door?", or "How many brothers or sisters do you have?" We felt more comfortable teaching each other, or teasing each other. We tried teaching Hilary a few words in spanish, but it didn't really work out so well. They made fun of Hilary and I, because neither of us could talk and work at the same time. So much for girls being able to multi task... It was a lot of fun, because even if we didn't know exactly how to say something, or didn't know the word we needed, they helped to fill in the blanks, and they understood that our grammar most definitely would not ever be absolutely perfect. It was a really fun way to get closer the the kids, and working together is a really nice way of breaking down the barrier between us Americans and the kids, because sometimes, you didn't even need to talk. Just working together was enough.
Becca
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