Quieres Jugar?

Jackie here.  Justin informed me tonight that here in the southern hemisphere the sun rises and sets in the north part of the sky.  Everything is upside down. That´s because something to do with the equator and the tilt of the earth and other things that I was not intiending (intiending is my spanglish way of saying understanding).  But I can tell you what I do undertand, and that is the sky here is the most beautiful sky I have ever seen.  Not just the color when the sun rises and sets, but also the stars in the deepest black a sky can get.  You can even see the Milky Way.  It looks so milky!    Estrellas is how you say stars in Spanish.

Speaking of Spanish, my favorite thing to say in Spanish is, Quieres jugar? That means Do you want to play?  Since I am the organizer of games, I get to ask that question a lot.  And most of the time the kids I´m asking get big grins on their faces and come running in to play.  The girls here love to play soccer.  They´re really good--even when they play in flip-flops, or in no shoes at all!  Justin and Kaitlyn and I played soccer with the girls on Monday, and we were all laughing the whole time.  That means we were having a lot of fun.  I think if I could, I would play soccer with these girls every day for the rest of my life.

Each day here has been an enormous blessing.  Every morning we get 21 hugs, and also throughout the day, and before we go to bed.  That´s 42+ hugs every day.  That´s a lot of love.