One more post

Well, I am leaving Mexico this Saturday. It will be a bitter sweet goodbye for many reasons. Some of the kids that I am close to don't want me to go. Jonathan informed me the other day (for the second or third time) that he would be fine if I packed him in my luggage and took him home. If I could take some of them home I would. But on one last note here are some things that I observed here at Casa Hogar that make me smile:
1. There are stairs... and I use that term losely. Ther are planks of wood heldup by bricks on other pieces of wood. THere are times when I am going up them when I think that if I fell then that would be it, I would break some serious bones.
2. If a building inspector from the States came and saw some of the scafolding, stairs, and man made ladders they would have a heart attack right there on the spot.
3. Some of the boys have so much gel in their hair that they might qualify as flamable.
4. Paint here is a loose term. I had to make it (yes make it) and I was told not to breath in any of the things I was mixing together. And when I washed the paint off of the brushes it ate away some of the skin on my hands. Nice.
5. It rained last night and the interns sleep on the bottome floor. I could here beds moving around last night before I went to sleep. Translation: the roof is leaking and beds are being rearanged.

Those are some quirky things that I love about this place. It can be hard sometimes but the hardest part is always leaving. To say goodbye to faces that I don't know if I will see agaain that I have loved, gotten to know, laughed with, joked with, hugged, smiled, and loved on for so many years but especially last summer and this summer. I know I will miss them.
But there will always be a piece of my heart that is here, in Mexico, at Casa Hogar. I love this place and these kids. As I end this part of my journey I move onto another one. For anyone who has read my blog, thank you for reading and sharing in my experiences, joys, pains, and adventures here.