Just Call me Tired Face

Whew.  Today the main goal was to survive.  Mainly because I got only four hours of sleep last night (got to bed late because I was writing my blog.  And we got home late last night from the excursion).  What's funny is, I believe I got told at least four or five times today (by my Profe and my MM) that I had a tired face (hence the title of this blog post).  So I decided to take a picture of my tired face for all too see:

Me in my natural habitat before taking my nap (this was taken after school and after lunch).  I call it, "Selfie of Me."

*Ahem*  Anyway, after surviving school (#thestruggleisreal), I came home with Conner, Christina, and Claire to do homework.  We got everything successfully completed, except our short stories.  After this, I had lunch:

After which, I passed out for at least an hour.  I was awoken by my roommates Korean text messaging notification sound (she served a mission in Korea), just in time for the service project at four.  So I got up, changed out of my dress, grabbed my bag, and headed out the door with my MM and Christina.  (MM drove us to 7-Eleven, then we grabbed a bus to the place.  We did this so that we could learn where to grab the bus if at some point our MM couldn't take us to the activity).  It was on the bus that I asked Christina to braid my hair (cause she's a braiding master!!)  See?

Eventually, we arrived at the service place.  And what it is is a place for people to stay when they are getting medical treatment at the hospital.  Today, we helped paint rooms (well, I didn't do that part) and made these little key chain things (which I believe they sell to raise money.  I made a monkey).

They had tons of different shapes!  Each shape had pegs to put the beads on.  So you grabbed a shape and made your own design, basically.  This is what it looks like before you iron it.

This is what it looks like after you iron it (though be sure to iron it with wax paper on top of it).

 I have to say, the part I enjoyed the most was talking with a little 3 year old boy that was staying there.  He was so cute and so eager to talk and to show off the different finished shapes.  I introduced myself to him while he was looking at a book and the rest of the night he would show me different things.  (SO cute).  Also, seeing the smiles people had on their faces was amazing.  Here were people with severe physical trials, yet all had smiles on their faces - were laughing and talking with the other folks there.  It was a good sight to see.

At about 7ish Christina, Brandon, MM, the other mama, and I left (we left early because I had my short story to write.  And the others left because they wanted to).  We got to help out a little in the kitchen before we left, which was fun (they served hot dogs tonight).  And I took these fun pictures at the bus stop (so that y'all could see the shirt I bought yesterday):

Me trying to look cool.  It says:  Choco-Story Mexico

Look at my cute hair!  *ahem*

 Eventually, we got home.  Immediately there after, we had dinner (which was good, because I was starving).  And after that, Christina and I went to the panaderia to get a sweet.  I got some dark-ish/really sweet chocolate fudge (I'm afraid it doesn't compare to my dad's fudge, but it tasted all right):

Can I just say, I was SUPER craving milk after these things.  Milk is something I am super looking forward to drinking when I get back to the states.

After desert, we returned home and I wrote my shot story (which I just finished not too long ago).  Hopefully the teacher will like it!

And now I am heading to bed.

'Til Tomorrow.

R J Carr

Random note:  I decided randomly today to only speak in Spanish.  I didn't do it perfectly, but I've definitely been speaking more Spanish than I have in the past week (I think I actually spake more Spanish than English today.  Maybe.  It was close at least)!  The best part is, it's catching on with a couple other people in the group *heh heh heh...my evil plan is working!  mwah ha ha ha ha!*  #success