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hey hey, so i think that i have some more stuff that i can write about. at work, its the end of the school year for every one of the kids that are in the public school. The kids that were held back a few weeks are all done and are very happy to be out of the school for the summer!! the older kids who go to night school have a few more weeks left of school and then they head off to the tradesschool, its like a redriver college, that they can attend if they want to. yeah so yeah, with work that has been about the only thing that has been going on. now its just figuring out what i should do with the kids cause they are home all day long :) but it is going good so far.
so last sunday, i went to the center of town to take out some more money and it had all gone great, and i had gotten it ou and then my card got sucked back into the machine :) great! after a little bit of freaking out i just thought ok thats fine, i´ll pick it up during the week, and that is what i did. changing subjects quickly, sunday night, or i guess monday morning at the blessed time of 4 in the A.M, i was woken up by the sound of paws on the ground. then i woke up and it was all dark, BUT there was a shape on the chair by my window. i jump out of my skin almost and i hiss that shape and it turns out to be a street cat that got into my room through my window. the cat freaks out and run across the room and crashes into my dresser and then runs back to the window and tries to jump out, but i have a curtain so the thing couldn´t not get out. then i yell at it this time then it crashes into the other side of the room again, and this time when it lunges at the window it gets between the bars and gets out, sort of. it got tangled into the curtain. so i tried my best to help it get free. it was an interesting night.
then during the week, it was pretty normal, other than the cat incident. oh two the boys in the home were taken home to their biological mom, so that is bittersweet, it is great that they went home to their realy home, which is the hope for all of the kids that they can go home one day.
then the other day, which was friday, i went to a 15th birthday party, these parties are a HUGE deal, and i was invited! it was pretty sweet, and last minute i was asked to join the VIP´ers so to speak. at the beginning of the party before the birthday girl presents herself her girlfriends (damas) get taken out into the crowd by a boy (garcon) and i was asked last minute to escort on the girls, so i did, and then i also had to waltz with her. it was interesting. haha the first time that i have ever been that involved in a 15th birthday bash.
so that was pretty much all that happened this week. it was a good week
love and prayers
toni hiebert

Work and stuff and birthdays

oook, so its been a while since i last blogged....sorry. what has happened. lets see, oh for my birthday, it was really sweet. there was a sleep over at Hans and Elmas house (all of us salters/yamen were invited to stay there for supper and a movie and a sleep) it was really fun, and Elma made a cake for me and they sang to me and gave me some caramel for my birthday :) then the next day i hung out at mcc here and then in the evening the rest of the salters and i and daniel, edgar, alfredo, and mariela went out to the cine to watch a movie for my birthday. it was a great night, all was paid for as well!!! and then sunday was my host brothers birthday (oct 19) and we had a party for him that day. and then monday (oct 20) :) was my birthday, it was a great day.they made a special lunch at work for me and then my host family here threw a party for me. it was a hard day at the beginning ´cause birthdays are a family thing for me,and i really missed the family that day. But everyone made my birthday so much fun and memorable, i even got my face pushed into the cake. it all makes for a great birthday!!!
oh and then later on that week was my host-mom's birthday, it was a week filled with birthday parties!! so much fun!!

with work, it has been going along pretty good. some days are really good, some just good, and some are just downright bad. but you know, i enjoy it, work is not something that you will always enjoy. i hope to soon see working at talita cumi not just as a job, some days that is all i see it as, a job, that i want to get off of quickly and go home and relax, and then sometimes its also where i dont want to go home and just hang out with the kids all day. i guess once i´ve been there for more than just a month i´ll know it better :)
here at Talita Cumi we are going through some hard times, prayer would be greatly appreciated.
Man, school is about to end for the kids, which means, all day they are here at the home. its going to be NUTS for those three months that they have vacation. but that will also mean that I will get to know the kids better, cause i dont have to keep telling them to do homework. so that will be fun.

what else can i write. Things are pretty calm here now politically. There is a vote (if i heard the news right) on January 25. but for now there haven't been any major fights and stuff like that. and santa cruz has been pretty calm for the last few weeks.
oh something interesting. they dont celebrate halloween here, they have a day of dead or thats what i call it. its a day (nov 2) where everyone goes to the cemetery and remembers their lost loved ones. november 1st was the day to remember the young children that died and then the 2nd was the rest of the people. i went by some cemeteries and they were packed with people! they bring food and music, all the favorite stuff of the person that passed away. and then they party it up infront of their gravesite. they say here that when you do that, the persons spirit joins the party. its kinda interesting.

i think that is all i have to write about right now
peace out
toni hiebert