What up what up!
Hello as well as goodbye from yours truly Cade, this past week has been a journey nonetheless. From Switching schools for volunteering to one of the best ego building experiences of my life.. futbol with the kids at the new school. Being a gringo ( such a surprise i know right?) i feel as if i was underestimated, and my the end of the recess my name went from Gato (the 3 and 4 year olds coulnd’t really pronounce Cade so cat is close enough) to el gringo loco. Only having four short days was tough, building relationships with children who constantly love life, smiling, laughing, embracing each moment as if they will never grow up. I decided to work with the 3 and 4 year old children because to be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what i would be able to teach them. I didn’t come on this trip to teach i came to learn, and that is exactly what i did. Just observing how happy these kids are each and every day taught me that as much as we all have our lives to live, who are we to spread negative vibrations to another, to restrict them of thier own happiness? Seeing the smiles on these kids face will remind me in times that we think there is no hope, keep it simple and be grateful for the little things in life. After an intense P.E. session of stretching and “running” which was more like hearding sheep, i was on the bottom of a 4 year old dogpile, and between my gasping breaths of suffocation all i could do was smile. Goodbyes are always hard, but i have come to realize it isn’t the end, only the beginning to a new journey called Otavalo. From zip lining to searching the streets of Baños for well respected art on walls around the city this adventure is coming to the end, but another one is about to begin…
Cade