Small Time Fun!

Well I’m back and it’s been a while since I last entered something. A lot has happened and we have been really busy with groups, friends visiting to make sure we’re not under a banana tree with umbrella drinks and Spanish lessons. The Spanish lessons are my least favourite but probably the most important. So I will make a few different entries, each with its own story. This one is how to have fun without the toys from home.

First find a few of your best friends and invite them down to the river for some old fashioned water hole splashing. These boys were having the time of their life and they really couldn’t care who was watching or what they thought of their fun. After a few pictures they thought it would be good to get us wet in our car. I’ve never claimed to be the brightest but that was my clue it was time to roll up the windows and finish driving through the river!

You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to figure out we don’t get snow in the Dominican Republic but as these 2 lads are showing, you don’t need it. In one of the villages we are working in we have a great hill for these guys to find a pod from one of the palm trees. Once you split them open and clean out the seeds and other goodies you simply flatten them out and sit inside. They are fairly thick and move down the hill just like a toboggan would in snow. The best thing about this fun is there is no snow to shovel.

Since toys are a rare commodity around here, the children will find an old bicycle tire, bicycle rim or anything else round and roll them with a stick. In the end of the stick they may have a piece of a bleach bottle nailed to it in the shape of a cup. With the cupped shaped end of the stick they compete with each other who can roll them the farthest without having the rim fall over. Sometimes they will even make an obstacle course to really test the skill. It’s no wonder when they get older they drive their motorcycles like it’s a part of their anatomy.