On Thursday, one of the girls who had visited me the day before came again. I invited her cousins and her to come and color. Soon another kid came, then another, and another. Before long my house was filled with kids. I then gave them some games my parents brought me and sent them outside, making them promise me that they would bring them back in the afternoon. I actually did get them all back! I am grateful to my parents for bring all these games. I really am! I am currently the most popular person on the block. But as the most popular person, I rarely get left alone. Sigh. The price of popularity!
Then I went with one of the mothers of my small business to Machala to buy ingredients for making another batch of disinfectant. We picked out four new scents for our next batch: pine, strawberry, sea breeze, and green apple. Hopefully they will be a success.
I spent most of Good Friday with the same neighbor I spent Carnival with and her family. I got to try fanesca—a soup filled with fish and many different types of beans that Ecuadorians make on Good Friday. It was pretty good. Then they made humitas, another typical food made with ground corn and cooked in the leaves. It was a lot of work, and I wasn’t very good at it. Especially, at folding the dough into the leaves. I guess the humita business they wanted me to start up when I return to the States isn’t going to happen.
I spent this morning pulling weeds and removing rocks in my ‘garden.’ Right now it is pretty ugly, but I want to eventually plant some flowers. I bunch of neighborhood kids came to help me. I like to think that they simply wanted to help me—and I am sure a few of them really did—but I got a lot more help when I promised to lend out my games. It is about time I took advantage of my popularity!
This afternoon the mothers and I made the disinfectant. It turned out well. I am proud to report that we have 37 more bottles to sell! Yay!
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