Antorchas

As a part of the San Lucas anniversary celebration, students enjoyed a nighttime parade with "antorchas." Many fanciful designs are included. They range from airplanes to doves to stars to condors. Our kids really enjoy the impressive parade in the dark! Here is Margot's contribution- a crocodile eating a dove!! Director Pedro, Tutora Carmen, and Giovana got a kick out of it, too.

New Buildings!

A recent event was the laying of the first stone for San Lucas School. We are excited to see San Lucas building additional classroom. They are certainly needed! As we have kids in 8th grade, we are eager to see the school keep ahead of our kids. I laid the first stone and Margot added a shovel load of cement. Go San Lucas! Hip, hip, hurrah!

Gold Medalist

In our recent celebration of athletic prowess, José (Pepe to his friends) won a "gold" medal for his speed in the city. In racing competition against numerous other schools and much larger boys, Pepe had the fastest time of any 6th grader. He has the honor of carrying the torch at the city-wide field day. Good job, Pepe!

The sun is unusually hot this spring so the water we brought to the park was eagerly downed by all-kids and adults. After the event, I gave out photos from last year´s Roof Dog Team and all the kids were excited to see the team members. They were somewhat shocked, too, to see how they themselves have grown this year! White balloons are available at this time of year as peace marches are popular in the schools so we brought some along to make the event more festive. Those peace balloons are great, too, for smacking your neighbor! OOPS! PEACE! The white hats helped with the sun as well.

Director Pedro has met his match!

Julio Cesar has his own starting position and NOTHING is going to change it! Get over it, Tío Pedro.

Peros Techeros!

Yes, indeed, it is "Roof Dog Run" time again. We "ran" in appreciation of the efforts of our supporters. We sped, ambled, moseyed, strolled, and ran pell mell to the park for races (or for the accompanying ice cream- I'm not sure the real motivation!). It was fun with everyone getting into the act. Tía Rosa trying to compete in high heels. Luciano blowing away the other guy tutors. Vicki bring up the rear. And Padre? Well, let´s just say he was "outdistanced" by José, Edgar, and Diego.

You´ll notice we had an honorary runner in Lima. It was great to see the bishop standing up. Continue to pray for him. His first hurdle will be getting home. We hope that will be this week.

Plano dogs- all the "pups" here send big hugs and thanks for all your support.