Not this past weekend, but the one before, we had a girls' night at Liz's house where we ate and ate and ate and talked and talked and talked! It was a great time and Liz made challah bread that we used the next morning for french toast. Delicious! We also made enchiladas which was a nice little treat. Don't worry, Adam wasn't all alone in Loja. He went out to the waterpark in Catamayo to celebrate Tony's birthday and then a couple of the guys crashed at our apartment (essentially they had a boys' night). On Sunday we played board games (Risk and Ticket to Ride) at a missionary couple's house here in Loja.
Liz slicing her challah bread that had pretty knots on top
Mmm...slice of veggie enchilada with a teeny bit of canned green chilis on top
As always, beautiful views out in the countryside
During the week it was pretty busy too, given that it was Eri's last week of work so we had to send her off with a bang! Monday, Eri and I made crepe paper flowers with the girls at Dorotea Carrion. They all sprayed perfume into the flowers and wow, it was hard to breathe in the room! That afternoon, Liz accompanied me to the Orfanato where I printed coloring book pages and the kids got to pick which characters they wanted to color (choices of Dora, Ben 10, Spongebob, etc.). They had just waxed the floor and covered it in what smelled like diesel, so it was also hard to breathe in that room! Let's just say that Monday was not a good day for the lungs! =D
Emily coloring Dora...but using the brush to even out the color of the crayons.
Tuesday I made a batch of snickerdoodles for our last workshop (well, Eri's last workshop...Elizabeth from CPD told the kids we would keep going) with the kids at the Centro Comercial. The room we usually work in ended up being occupied for a meeting so we had to work in the stairwell! I had burned a portion of the cookies but luckily the kids liked the cookies "mas crocante" (crunchier) for some reason.
Right after we finished up at the Centro Comercial, our colleagues at the CPD office said that we had to go meet them at the office because they had a despedida (going away party) planned for her at the main INFA office. We met some of our colleagues there and made our way to the main INFA office. Poor Eri had an appointment at 5pm with another office in town, and dinner plans with friends. However, in the end it was nice that they had planned something, although with little notice. And no, this wasn't a surprise party that was planned, just something that they forgot to tell her I think!
That night, I made carrot cupcakes for our Dorotea Carrion despedida for Eri on Wednesday...and these also didn't turn out great. I didn't put enough flour in the batter so only the second batch came out! Boo. On Wednesday morning we had a great time eating cakes (the girls made a chocolate and an orange cake) and Eri taught the girls the dance to Waka Waka. And of course, more photos!
The good batch with the little Japan flags and the bad batch.
The spread- popcorn (cangil in Ecuador), jello, cupcakes, and cake
The girls singing a song they prepared for Eri
Afterwards, Eri made her last trip to the CPD office to say her goodbyes and check to see that she didn't leave anything behind. I think it was a very weird experience for her to see the office for the very last time!
Eri in front of the office entrance
On Thursday I spent most of the day working on Eri's goodbye scrapbook because I had to drop it off at this print shop (I'll post a few pages later). The owner knows Eri and I from the origami workshops and had given us extra paper before, so I decided to ask if he could bind/sew the scrapbook together for me. He kindly did it for me for free! In the evening, we met up with Julisa, Yolanda and Karla for another mini despedida.
So that was last week! I'll continue with another post about our trip to Puerto Lopez to celebrate Adam's birthday by going whale watching with Janet and Jason. Super fun!!
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