More pictures from Mexico

Both of the villages we visited welcomed us with a presentation by their children. The children in the first village danced for us, and the wild children in the second supposedly sang for us (why they are in crepe paper costumes I'm not really sure). The dancing was so cute! The singing, well, we got to know that that group of kids liked to be very loud. The school is where we slept - on a blanket on concrete floors. There were no showers. We played lots of soccer and they taught us some new games. The game where we are holding hands in a circle is a really fun game - kind of like duck duck goose with partners. The other is where a kid repeats a rhyme and gets people out when she lands on them. I didn't catch the meaning of it all but at least one rhyme had something to do with sending people to either China or Japan. The little girl I'm sitting down with (I'm afraid I don't remember her name) had a few conversations with me - if you could call them that. She would say something, I would respond and she would look at me like I'm crazy. But we did finally learn how to communicate properly on the soccer field - she is quite a good little player. I'm not sure you can see, but there is one picture inside of one of the kitchens. The homes of these villages are made up of many buildings. One for the kitchen and usually a couple more separate one-room buildings for sleeping (i.e. one for the children, one for the parents, and one for the grandparents). I have a picture of one of the smoky kitchens where we would take our food supplies to be turned into supper (or breakfast, or lunch). And the last few pictures are of the ride home. We got up and left before sunrise - there we are loading the truck getting ready to leave. And then there is a beautiful picture of a mountain as we were driving down the mountain (which takes an hour). And the last waterfall is a park where we stopped to make lunch on our way back to Monterrey.