October Tales

Every 2 months or so the volunteers put together a slideshow of their service here. They include photos and music of their memories. The slideshow is played at a going-away banquet for the exiting volunteers. Volunteers always take pictures of us but we normally don't get copies of the photos except for when we spot them in a slideshow. Here are a couple of pictures that we found in the last slideshow. The first four were taken at an orphanage called"Hogar Para Todos" in a city called Azogues.




This last photo was taken at Trinidad. Lee and I are teaching the children how to play "Doggie Doggy." I discovered this game summer 2008 while visiting family in Incline Village. It was a lovely week with lots of time to play with nieces and nephews.

One day the kids were bored so I googled " kid games" and thats how I found "Doggy Doggy." A child sits in a chair with their back to the other children. An pen or another object was put under the chair. That was the bone. While 'the dog' was turned around with his or her eyes closed, someone would sneak up and steal the bone. Then everyone would sing: "Doggy, Doggy, where's your bone? Somebody's took it from your home."Then the dog has three chances to guess who took the bone.

While at Trinidad I told Lee that we should try to teach the children the game, so he quickly translated the phrase and it turned out to work really well. The words are just as cute. "Perrito, perrito, donde esta tu huesito?" It made me think of my nieces and nephews who we miss so much.