Judge

María Perez, director of Casa Hogar San José, was asked to be one of the dance judges this year. (No small committment as the dances can last 4 hours or more!) She attends the parents meetings, picks up the report cards, and checks regularly with the teachers on our kids´ progress. We try to fulfill the role of parents as best we can. Of course with 24 Casas kids in San Lucas, we represent about 13% of the enrollment. All our educadoras help out, too.

More Outfits

Danzas

As one would expect, the Casas kids participated in the dances. Costumes are rented and sometime cost up to a day´s wages! This is an item in the budget we keep raising each year! Parents are really pleased here when there kids do well. And we´re not talking a 3 minute "do-see-do," either! Waldir in garb.

San Lucas Eucharist

First communions were planned for San Lucas this past week. Due to doctors' appointments, Nestor was not able to play for the event and Vicki stepped in to pinch hit for him. It went very well and the kids behaved, too! We have 23 kids attending San Lucas now with our two smallest ones attending the preschool across the street from San José and Edgar and Giovanna who are in the PRONOE program. Can you pick some of ours out? They are all growing so fast!

Spelling B

Vicki and Padre judged the San Lucas spelling Bee yesterday. The kids select a word, read it, and then spell it in English. The judges were tough, but fair. "Hmmm...., how did you pronounce "K"? Was that "e" sound Spanish, or English? Hmmmm....."

Our secondary winner was Margot. (no surprise there!) And our primary winner was our Waldir who tied with a student named María de los Ángeles. The winners´ picture didn´t turn out! :(

Olympiad 2008

In celebration of San Lucas Day our Casas kids participated in the field day events. We had a raising of the Olympic flag, a run bringing in the Olympic torch (no one got burned!)and then races and futbol competitions. Padre Ron was a "padrino" for the 4th grade. We have Victoria, Marta, Hermelinda, Xavier, Miguel Ángel,Lizbeth, and Katiuska in that class. TRANSLATION: Padre got to buy a new soccer ball for their games. It was great fun and the kids enjoyed the out of doors.

Corazón con Esperanza

San José kids had a visit recently from Corazón con Esperanza, a medical group from the US that checks hearts and teeth. A great group, they quickly checked everyone out telling us that we needed a couple of extractions but everything else was fine!