Pictures from the beac, awesome host families, and our partner agency friends for the Youth Festival and some Randomness

Getting busy

So my summer is getting super busy.... I was go, go going for about the past 15 days. We go to go to the beach for our middle of the summer vacation for 2 days which was amazing... it was the best beach I´ve ever been to! But we also had volunteers and didn´t really get the break of a weekend like normal so by the time yesterday rolled around I was pretty ready to be Mary Ann the Real Girl and not Mary Ann the Supervisor.... definitely needed a day to pasear (that´s what they call walking around and hanging out) and a night to go out with my fellow supervisors... it´s totally important for my sanity and emotional well'being .... so we got our fair share of salsa and typica and merengue and just plain reggaeton in for the night.... and I feel rejuvenated.... sometimes I just need a good time. Ha.... and although Panama and Amigos kicked my butt for the last 2 weeks or so it is still absolutely fabulous.... once I got rejuvenated. Ha. Also I got told by one of my vols last week that there host family didn´t want any volunteers to live with them until they met me and that they enjoyed me so much that they decided they wanted volunteers.... It really made me feel warm and fuzzy inside and was definitely one of the many moments that I came here for. I got to hang out today at an encuentro with all my vols and a lot of the kids from my communities and watch them all play in a soccor tournament and it was so fun.... a lot of the older teenagers thought it was a good idea to go the cantina before they played soccor.... and so I come into town on the bus, pass the cantina and realize half of one of my towns is there..... they lost the game. But were also quite amusing... All of my vols are doing great on there projects with a little prodding from me to get stuff done and it is really nice to see there journey through the summer and be a part of it... Makes the next couple weeks of hellish closing summer paperwork kind of worth it. Anyway above are more pictures from the summer... Enjoy