Today the children from the Mayan Families Pre-school in San Jorge, Guatemala went on a big excursion! We picked them up at 8.am. and brought them to Panajachel. 26 very excited children and two teachers.We had permission to use the playground at Casa Contenta which is a government building used for recreation for government employees. We have to make an application to be able to use it and we can have access for approx. 3 hours .
The children of San Jorge had never seen such a wonderful sight!! When they walked into the gardens their faces were just a delight to see. It was like walking into Disneyland for them.
In a flash I had nearly 15 backpacks being thrown at me while they ran off as quickly as they could to climb, swing and jump!
We had a breakfast of fresh bread with beans and juice waiting for them. Before they went home we gave them an oatmeal drink called "mosh" and fruit.After three hours of almost non stop running and playing it was a very tired and very happy group of children that climbed onto the bus to go back to San Jorge.
We would like to bring the children to the park once a month. It costs us $40 US to rent the bus to bring them down. If anyone would like to sponsor a trip for the children to come down to the park....it would be a great help for us and a real joy for the children.
To see more photos please go to this link :http://picasaweb.google.com/mayanfamilies/Febrero25De2010General1#
To see a video of the children having a lot of fun please go to the link below:http://www.youtube.com/user/mayanfamiliesvideo#p/a/u/0/XLPENTPQiQQ
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All of the children are precious!!! What a delightful day for all!
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