Warmest of greeting to all!
Tomorrow is our last day in our experiecen groups, so I thought it fit to send out an blog.
We have been worinking in a nursing home that is owned by the Bishop of Alicanto and run by the Sisters of Charity. We spend about two hours a day with the residents witnessing their love, giving them as much of our own that we can and engaging in various activities with them. The first day was a meet and greet where we got ot know teh residents. We introduced oursleves adn did what we could to engage in a back in forth, our activity was the making and decorating of name tags. We helped the resident to make and devcorate their own name tags and helped place the around their necks. Our second day colored in pinwheels of various degrees of difficulty, two, and sang a Someon-says type chuildren´s song. The residents loved it. our third day we played Parcheese with them or simply visited with them, our fifth day we gave them massages with ping pong balls and listen4ed to soothing music. Today was our sixth day and we used tooth picks and markers to decorate images we preovided. Tomorrow is our last day, adn we are going to have a farwell party. Most days there is a part near the end where there is always singing of typical Spanish songs adn dancing. Dana has made up a super catchy one called ¨Viva España¨, the song is mostly in Italian.
We have been blessed with not only the opportunity to serve these wonderful people, but also with the chance to see much of this town we are in. Each afternoon after lunch, siesta time adn our various Magis circles, where we gather in our groups and eflect over how our day went, the good the bad and how it ties into thereading of the day, we go on small cultural encounters. We have gone to seen the face of Chirst at La Santa Faz, where they have one of teh three folds of Veronica´s veil that cleaned the face of Jesus on his way to Golgota. We have been to teh beach on the Medditerranean. We have seent eh University, been visisted by a few of teh students of the school we are staying in, gone to see La Virgen de Orito and climbed the mountain through the vineyards to the cave where the Capuchin Saint Pascual de Orito. WE had mass as the sun set in front of the cave on the hillside.
Our group has become so close. It is hard to believe that it has only been six days. WE stay up late after our evening examen and teach each other how to dance. We stay up frequently duing the siesta time, talking, sharing, getting to know one another. On the beach we had spent an increadible time playing volleyball, soccer and in teh waves. Today we go to see the castle of Alicante adn walk downtown. Tomorrow we have a mass with the families of teh children that go to school where we have been staying, adn then we shall walk the port.
Love to all of our fmailies adn friend back home. We are praying for you, for the rest of those going to WYD and leave on Monday for Madrid!
Peace,
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