Today was a great day! We arrived at the orphanage which is about an hour and a half away at about 9:30. When we arrived all of the children except 10 were in school. This is an all girls orphanage with about 50 girls between the ages of 8-17. We got all of our stuff unpacked and ready, spent time some time with the 10 of them, then prepared the hot dog lunch. The rest of the girls got out of school at noon. We served them a lunch of hot dogs, chips, cookies and juice boxes. The hotel is very kind and purchases all of the meal supplies for us. We think that they counted wrong today because we ran out of hot dogs. All of the children ate – but some of the workers at the orphanage didn’t get any and neither did our team. Other than that the day went smoothly. After lunch we taught the bible lesson, did a craft, painted some fingernails, played basketball, jumped rope, and chalked on the sidewalk. Since this is a transitional orphanage and the girls only stay for two years – we were surprised to see 5-10 girls that have been here the past 2 years. One 16 year old girl had a 2 year old daughter – it was sad to see 2 generations in the orphanage. I have never seen this before but I was glad that she was allowed to have her daughter with her – because this orphanage is for older girls. All of the girls help take care of the little one and she calls them all Mama. Before we left we had a piñata for the girls to break. We have never done this at this orphanage before…the past 2 years we did not have the time so we just left it with the nuns. Once the piñata was broken this girls all flew to the ground and were on a pile on top of each other. I have never seen anything like it. You couldn’t see a single face – just a pile of girls lying flat out on top of each other! It was hysterical – I was so shocked that I couldn’t take a decent picture. I am hoping that one of the other team members got it. We left the orphanage around 5:00. Before we left a few of the girls told our group how much the visit meant to them and that their doors are always open to our group. We ate at the hotel tonight and had our team meeting – and devotional and everyone went back to their rooms. You could see that the team was worn out! The orphanage today was very hot…there is not a lot of air flowing through the buildings…which are not air conditioned. It was probably in the 80’s today. Please be in prayer for our team – tomorrow is going to be a tough day. We will visit the Special Needs Orphanage and the AIDS orphanage. These are both very hard! Please also pray that the team will stay healthy. My voice is coming and going as is the case with a few other team members. The smog doesn’t help at all!