Three day catch up (Alex)

So I am going to try to explain everything that has happened the past three days.
On Saturday, I had to wake up at 2:30 in the morning, so we could meet at the church by 3. Leaving and saying goodbye to my family was hard. I still remember how hard it was when Kimberly came here two years ago, and those memories came back knowing that Kimberly was going to have those same feelings. We had to take three planes to get here and we almost missed our third plane because our second plane was delayed on take off. But luckily our third plane was also delayed, so we were able to make it. When we got here, we met for a light dinner and orientation.
On Sunday, we woke up and ate breakfast before going to church. We had the privilege to spend the entire day with the boys from Casa de Ninos, people don't usually get to see these boys because their house is 5 hours north of Mexico City. When the sermon started, I was pleased and surprised to see that they had brought someone up on stage to translate the sermon for us. We got to see someone get baptized, which was really cool. But other than the language, the service was pretty much the same at church service back home. They were even promoting VBS. After church we went to the hacienda, which is an old plantation that was abandoned in the early 1900's when the revolution happened. I have been here before when i came 4 years ago, but this time there were vendors out selling toys and ponchos and other cool things. Other than the vendors, everything else was the same, but it was still just as cool seeing the old buildings. Several of the buildings are still standing and its amazing seeing the architecture from back then.
Monday was our first work day. We went to the Agape house to clean and re-seal a large section of the roof. We were able to get half cleaned and re-sealed today. On the other half we had to scrape the old sealer that was flaking off before re-sealing, we were able to get most of it scraped and in the morning we will go back and should get the rest scraped and seal it as well. after working, we went to the Jirah house to have lunch (lunch is the big meal if the day) and play with the kids. This house is an all girls house. I was a little hesitant to opening up and bonding with the kids just because I know how hard it is to leave them. But shortly after watching everyone else, one of the little girls came up to me and said "caballo" which means horse. So I let her get on my back and I would run around and jump up and down, and after that all of the other girls wanted a ride which tired me out like crazy. So I just went and laid down in the grass, this apparently prompted Colby to have all the girls jump and pile on me. I would pretend to sleep and the girls would poke my face until I would wake up and rawr to scare them. The last time I was here, I didn't know how hard it would be to leave until the last day as we were leaving. This time, I knew how hard it would be, so those feeling came rushing in as we left Jirah which made it even harder leaving. When we got back to the main compound, we went over to the the house of Esperanza to see a birthday party for one of the boys. It was crazy because it is a tradition here where everyone smashes your face in the cake if it's your birthday. I wasn't able to stay for the whole time because one of the vans broke down a few blocks down the road, so Steve asked me to come help and see if I knew what was going on. We were luckily able to get the van back just before the rain started. In the morning I will stay back and help try to fix the van, as well as put some parts on another vehicle. I am nervous to be working away from the rest of the group, but I am glad to help where I am needed.