A second Pancake Day!
And then, for me, a second morning as Second Assistant to the Teacher. For the mid-session snack, the Tias bring the students leftover pancakes with chunky peanut butter.
After lunch, (with dessert of sweet, juicy pineapple) we finally get to the fallen stack of lumber, carefully restacking it as next in line for spray painting, then we're back painting through the afternoon.
It's our last night here, and there's to be a farewell fiesta.
At dusk, we gather, visitors and staff and the kids, in a large circle around a fire on the courtyard/playground. We each receive a candle; one candle is lit, and we pass the flame from candle to candle around the circle. Then each of us is, in turn, called on to sum up the week in a word.
The older kids then served us our fiesta dinner where we sat; chicken again! Things have apparently improved to the point that every couple days the orphanage serves a meal with meat.
Then came the entertainment, performed outdoors so hard to photograph. Here some of the kids act out some classic novelty song about a colicy baby. They've performed this before; in this version, one of them is dressed as the bottle that the nurse is bringing in.
It starts to rain, so we all pack into the boys' dining hall. For dessert, they surprise me with a birthday cake, including the trick candles, Happy Birthday To You in Spanish, and a big home-made card signed by the kids. As Maynard G. Krebs used to say, I still get kinda misty thinking about it.
Then there was dancing, including learning this traditional dance.
Traditional in Wisconsin, that is.
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