Cake & Asian People

Nicole just turned two. I actually haven't seen her in a bit--I don't know if the adoption is done and she won't be coming back, or if her soon-to-be mom is just keeping her for a while. Apparently she brought over cake and party favors (a top for each of the boys and some plastic bracelets for the girls--both big hits) so that the kids could celebrate with Nicole. I guess there was still some left over the next morning. When I walked in expecting to see the usual milk and bread, what I actually found was 5 kids shoveling chocolate cake into their mouths. Well, 4 kids shoveling anyway. Milagros was actually a little leery of it. I got the feeling she doesn't come across cake often--she wouldn't put any in her mouth without blowing on it first. Alicia tried to tell her,"It's cake! You don't need to do that!" She just looked up at Alicia with a confused face and spooned up another bite to blow on.

Michaela (with just about an entire piece of cake in her mouth)
Also, Gabriel in the background being a goof

Afterwards, I took these sugar-hyped kids (who hardly ever eat sugar) to the park. That was interesting. Though, after getting used to taking eleven to the park, these five could have been hooked up to maple syrup IVs all night and taking only them would still seem like a piece of cake. [Hah! Get it? :]

Almost all of the playground equipment is broken, short of a couple of swings and a few see-saws. I heard a rumor that it's going to be rebuilt, though I've come to realize that only about half or so of the rumors I hear here are true. I have high hopes though--today there was a man with a big fancy video camera taking footage of the ruins. [Not hyperbole...that really is the exact word I would use to describe what's left of this park.]

Tutui & Michaela on the "slide"

I was trying to take more pictures of them when my camera ran out of space. I never clear my memory card. So I was shuffling through pictures, figuring out what I already had on my computer at home. The kids like to be over my shoulder every time I'm doing anything, and this time was no exception. Now, Argentina is full of hispanic people and white people. They don't have a whole lot of diversity going on, at least not in this town. I've been here for three weeks and have seen a total of 2 Asian people and 1 black person. And I get out a lot more than these kids. So, as I was scrolling through, they saw a picture of Jonathan and me. They thought of the only Asian person they could think of and... now they are all convinced that I am dating Jackie Chan. There is no talking them out of it. Jon will have to practice his stuntwork or they'll be super disappointed if they ever meet him.

Jackie & Me :]