Today is my sixteenth birthday and in my family we have a tradition of eating birthday cake for breakfast, because it is very difficult to have the whole family together at once in the afternoon. So my older sister Gracyn bought a pastry and declared that as my birthday cake, which started my day and birthday off with a bang. Which was needed since we had an interesting night with new species of bird called the Ryan Wade. Needless to say the night was interesting.
Once we arrived at the school, we got right to work with the girls painting again and the boys mixing concrete. Of course with our amazing girl power we had the entire bottom half of the school painted before the guys had even finished mixing the first batch of concrete for the day.
When the children arrived we went into the church and taught them how to make bracelets, which turned into the youth member making the bracelets and the children playing with beads. While working today we also had background music and five second dance party every thirty minutes.
One of my favorite parts of today was playing soccer with the children and whenever the ball would fly over the fence, all of the children would run to climb over the fence and get it. After we finished working for the day a few of us walked to the shop down the street and I bought mini malo (which is a kid that follows Joseph around) ice-cream. It made my day when the first thing he did was offer everyone a piece of his ice-cream cake.
To finish the best birthday a girl could have; we were at dinner when the group made me stand on my chair while they sang happy birthday in Spanish to me and everyone in the cafeteria started to tap their glasses.
If I was able to spend my birthday with anyone besides my family, I’m glad it was with these people because they are like cousins that you see all the time, and I love them.
Kelsey D.
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