Well, it is Thursday morning, and I have a little time before work, so I thought I would blog. Office work continues as normal. We have had an increase in donations - more than normal for this time of year - to help out with the expenses for the water situation. It is nice, but that means I get to write more thank you cards - I wrote 16 on Tuesday and 13 on Wednesday; my hand was tired! The town (in a crisis/annoyed) itself did not forget La Puente or other non-profits. We had people stopping to bring gallons of clean water from outside city limits, donations of towels, food, etc. It is a blessing to see how places can pull together in times of need.
The last two days I worked with the PALS kids. We decided to focus on a new culture each week for the next several weeks. This way we had something to plan with and they may actually learn something too! We started with ancient Egypt this week. They built sugar cube and frosting pyramids on Tuesday. It was a lot of fun to watch them do. I think more frosting was used to eat than to glue the pyramids together... but a little sugar never hurt anyone, right? On Wednesday, we went to the park to enjoy the sunshine, 60F temperature, and, of course, the wind! Some of us held batting practice; some played on the playground. The wind can whip the energy right out of you, and it did do that to most of the kids, which is kinda nice :) Thursday they will make paper and wrap each other up like mummies. On Friday, they are going to go on a treasure hunt! I will not be participating, since I will be at the food bank.
Otherwise, life continues ticking by. On Saturday our unit is going to go hiking. I think we are headed south into New Mexico. There is the Rio Grande Gorge there and apparently, there is a trail that you can take to the bottom. So, we will hike down in. I hope to get some good pictures that day. In the evening is the big NCAA final four tournament games. Exciting, I know. Hope everyone is having a great week. I will blog later.
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