The last full day we spent in San Luis, boo hoo. ):
At the beginning of the day, we woke up and got ready to go to the dump. Yes, the dump, the place where all your garbage goes. In San Luis it's more than that, some people call it home. They literally live on piles of garbage, can you even imagine? It's the craziest thing in the world. It slaps you in the face so hard when you pull into the miles and miles or garbage and small little tents, you don't even know what to do.
You get in the van to go there, cheerful like any other day. But the moment you pull in, there's this complete silence. The silence is crazy, because it's hard to get 33 teenagers completely quiet. Once you see it though, you're in shock.
This is it, for miles and miles and miles and miles. Because the garbage just keeps coming, even while we were there, more came. These people are so selfless, it's incredible. When we were saying hi to all of them, one of the ladies told me I was prety. I was seriously in shock, I don't deserve to hear that, you do! She stood on a pile of garbage and hugged me, and complemented me. It was one of the craziest things I've ever expierienced. That lady caught my eye, and so did another.
I had two spanish bibles, and God kept telling me to give them to those two ladies. I was scared at first, I don't easily step out of my comfort zone, so I still stood there. Then Adalberto asked if anybody need praying for healing, and the one lady God kept pointing out to me stepped forward. There was this sudden burdon in my heart for all of these people, deeper than ever before. So I ran to that lady and prayed for her, when we were done I gave her the one bible, and told her, "Dios te bendiga." She was so grateful, you could just see it, she hugged me and said, "Gracias."
I still had the other bible, remember that. So then we started handing out the donations we brought, I was handing them out with Rachael. In that moment, your heart breaks, and you just want to bawl. You will do EVERYTHING you can to help those people. We took the shows right off of our feet and handed them over, to the people who needed them way more than we did.
I still held that bible, the lady who called me pretty was gone, but another lady was there. She started to walk away, and I wasn't letting this oppurtunity slip away with her. I ran to her and gave her the bible. I love the dump so much, I wish I could go there everyday and bless those people.
Okay sorry for probably breaking your heart up there! Now it's time for some fun! We went to a brickyard and watched this guy make bricks, crazy! He let us make some too, it was so so great!
After the brickyard, we went shopping, I love Mexico shopping! (:
I bought my family presents, a cowboy hat for myself, and a blanket for Dulce! After shopping we headed back to the Bethel, to try to enjoy the wonderful hours left with all our kiddos. A lot of people left to go to Frutal, but I decided to stay. These were the last few hours for another whole year, I could've cared less about any smoothie, or ice cream.
After the Frutal crew came back, we played for a while longer. But the dreaded hours came to soon, it was time for the fiesta. We had this really yummy food, I ate with Dulce, Rachael, and Evelin! The food tasted seriously SO good, but it made us all sick to our stomachs, who knews how or why. After this we brought out the giant spongebob pinata we bought for the kids! They were so excited, it was great! They were all lining up and something happened, Alberto got upset, and ran away. Then Dulce couldn't find him, and she told me. So I told Benita, and we all ran around screaming, "Alberto!!" We found him crying in one of the rooms, poor boy. Then we sat down under the little pavillion and Dulce, Evelin, Alejandro, and Pedro did a dance for us!
I had Kitsia on my lap and while I watched the dance, and I lost it, I was crying so hard. Kitsia got so concerned, she wiped away my tears and wrapped her little hands around my neck. When they were done the boys home did a dance to Vida. After that, the kids did a skit for us! It was so hilarious, I kept giving Dulce a thumbs up and she would laugh so hard. Then we did our dance, and Dulce gave me a thumbs too, funny girl!
Then came that dread time, the time that we all hate, time to say adios. This is really hard to type, I don't even know what to say. We all line up in a big L, and the kids get in line by height. First they all give us cards, my first one was from Kitsia. Then Dulce got hers out of it's hiding place and gave it to me. Then all the kids come through one by one to give everyone a hug, you drop to your knees to hug the little one, and stand up as they get taller.
This moment is, the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. The minute you get in line you bawl, and you can't stop until you fall asleep that night. After all the kids went through I was crying uncontrollably, as usual. Dulce ran up to me like she always does and said, "Don't cry smile big Big BIG!" I sat with her for about half an hour, then she told me she had to go to bed, oh no. I walked her over, but we just couldn't say goodbye we sat on the stairs for another half an hour. I held her in my arms and told her how much I loved her, over and over and over. Then it was really time, I gave her that last hug and kissed her on the head, no words, because that's just how much it hurts.
When we finally let go, I ran and sat down on the cement and bawled my eyes out. We had a short team meeting last night, and then we went to our room and packed up our stuff. I laid in my bed, reading my bible crying, and I cried and cried until I cried myself to sleep.
Until next year mi amiga.. <3
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