A new video from the Girasoles home in Kusi!
Each year, the boys of Kusi learn new choreographed dances to do with the visiting volunteer work teams that spend a week at the home. While they continue with the old favorites, like Jehova Es Mi Pastor and Escalando Peldaños, they add at least one new dance to the repertoire. In this dance, it is the youngest and smallest boys dancing to Giovanni Rios’ “La Iglesia Va Para Arriba.”
Oh how these videos make me miss the jungle and the World Cup fever! I can’t count the number of times that I heard both of these songs at night when the generator was turned on – it had to be in the hundreds just the five days alone that the team from Mauldin, SC was with us!
Wavin’ flag – K’Naan and David Bisbal
Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) – Shakira
After three wonderful months in the jungle, I have returned to Michigan!
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Have a great Labor Day weekend!
After three glorious months, I have made it back to Michigan.
Here are a few videos from the summer:
Boys from the Girasoles home in Kusi performing a choreography to Marcos Witt’s song “En los Montes, En los Valles”
David, one of the youngest boys at Girasoles Ica, sharing a birthday message to Jonathan, another boy from the home.
Part of the traditional soccer game that occurs every afternoon before dinner at the Girasoles home in Puerto Alegria. Hox is singing the Peruvian National anthem in the background.
Yesterday was my last day in Kusi for the summer.
On Monday and Tuesday, the work team from Virigina wanted to host a VBS-like program for the Girasoles boys, children that attend the SU-operated school at Kusi and children from the nearby villages of Ongo and Aira. Both days the team prepared songs, games, dancing, a craft, story and skit to share with the children, which was both successful and lots of fun. On the second day, they ended the event with a big carnival in the main square of Kusi. There was face painting, crafts, games where the children spun around a baseball bat (which is quite funny for those watching) and where they had to match numbers on floating little yellow rubber duckies. They even had a beauty station with manicures for the mothers that came with their children. It was a great way to end the two days of events!