I left Ania downstairs with boys (read: boys and girls - Alexandra and Deli) and I hide myself in the room to write something, finally. Normally at this time I would clean a kitchen with boys and after I would listen some stories of Miguel - about toucan whose head he shooted away by himself or about a crazy cow who bumped into some woman carrying shopping bags.
At 9:30 p.m. we have a common prayer and then something that we call "word for a good night". We have to be vigilant with Ania (more or less) until 10:30 p.m. because boys like to rough and tumble in the bathroom and fight in their bedrooms. Sometimes at this time we also have to help someone with his homework or for example draw a First Holy Communion's poster.
Life here is an endless spontaneity.We have set our daily schedule but complying with it would be boring. All the time we have to change it - thow out or add something. Let me show you how it looks like, using an example of the last two days.
Saturday. In the last moment we found out that there is a holy mass in the chapel at 6:00 p.m. - they've organized some retreat days for young people from Cacla who are preparing themselves for the sacrament of Confirmation. So...we all ran to the chapel. It was already 6:10 p.m. Everything inside was already decorated because at 7:00 p.m. there had to be a wedding (It's another story but generally as for a peruvian conditions it was a royal wedding. One week ealier came a bride and asked about the lenght of the chapel because she wanted to buy a carpet and cloth for the garlands). Padre Ruben started a mass about 6:40 p.m. Hurry is not necessary, we are in Peru, there is a time for everything. To be true I thought that they would cancel this mass because the wedding guests were already entering the chapel (I will also mention that in the meantime boys moved the pews and they tore off some of the garlands.). Whatever. The thing is..I didn't expect that it's possible to say a mass in such a fast rate, that means 20 minutes. And I also didn't expect that is possible to present all the candidates of Confirmation in the meantime of cleaning chalices. So somehow we managed to leave the chapel in time.
After the mass there had to be a common birthday party of seven our boys. We've prepared ealier a dining room for this opportunity. The problem was that our dining room is situated next to the chapel so we couldn't start our party because the music could disturb to celebrate the wedding. So we had to invent something to do to fulfill this free time. Somebody has proposed to clean the dining room, kitchen and pantry. I started to laugh because we were 20 people and we have already cleaned all these places after the dinner. There were two plates to wash, five tea spoons, one mug. And in the pantry we only had a few things to put on the shelfs. But I'm not surprised anymore of anything here.
The party started about 7:30 p.m. and was quite cool. A lot of laughs. The best moment of it was a moment of "pińada". It's a latin american birthday tradition. They buy a big ball (It can be in a shape of some animal or anything) and put inside a lot of sweets and other small gifts. Artur bought a "football ball". He hang it on a long, metal bar. He climbed with it on the chairs (left and right feet was standing on two other chairs) to be as high as it was possile. The ball was really high so boys only were tearing off the ribbons, jumping and jumping. Everything looked like in the slow motion movie as long as Alfredo didn't participate to this crazy game. When he joined the real fun has started. It's impossible to describe how exactly it has happened. I only saw two chairs (the ones those were under the feet of Artur) moving and flying to the other part of dining room. Artur made something like pole-vault and fell down on the floor like a little beetle. Right behind him came into being something in a shape of ant-hill - all the boys plus Delia and Alexandra, lying aheap and snatching the sweets out of their hands.We were convulsed with laughter.
