Visit to AUPI-Hogar Maruja-Sterling
Following a toys drive at school, Lucia D, Jin Kyu, Francisco, Kun Hee and I visited AUPI to deliver the toy donations. As it was a Friday, most of the boys had gone home, and only seven were left. Even though we were a small number of people, all of us had tons of fun.
Initially, the boys were absorbed by the toys. They were taking them out of the bag, spreading them on the table, admiring this one and that. But they were pretty soon bored of them. Three of them asked Francisco, Jin Kyu and Kun Hee to play soccer with them on the rooftop, in the field we had painted for them last year. (Oh! By the way, I was so happy by how intact the field looked when we got there!) Lucia and I stayed downstairs for a while, with the younger boys. But after a while, we both chose to go upstairs. The younger boys stayed under my father's care (my father had driven the five of us there). I think we probably played soccer for an hour and a half at least. At 18h00 or so, the lady who tends the house and cooks called us downstairs, because it was the boys' snack time. We stayed for another thirty minutes, as we warmed ourselves and drank hot chocolate, and we left at 18h30.
Date: Friday, September 13th.
People who went: Francisco, Kun Hee, Se Jeong, Jin Kyu, Lucia D, Se Jeong's father.
Notes we made:
We noted that, though the boys love to play soccer, they do not have a good soccer ball to play with. We thought that next time we go, we might consider bringing them one. Plus, when I asked the boys what they really liked as presents (to create a wishlist of some sort in my mind), many said they really enjoyed reading. Maybe we could use the donation box for this. I think we should change the purpose of the donation box to turn it into a "Books & Balls" drive, or something along those lines. What do you think?
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