26-6-2010

José Luis pulling his funny nagging face!

Jhonatan screaming through the window, "Tío Ryryan", and showed me his pirate boat.

Renzo made a bike from clay putty by himself!

The twins were just too cute and too sweet sometimes! I feel like that they really see me as a very close family member. José Luis, for instance, has recently been nagging me to stay with him. If I went away, he would nag and pretend to cry! Jhonatan has always been sticking with me a lot. He, on the other hand, would yell my name until the end of time! Actually it happens to many kids as well. Jhosmelyr, for example, has been hugging me and looking up for me. This morning when I was having breakfast, the kinders passed by, and she saw me and told me Joanca had done some bad things! It was hilarious! She really cares about what I have to say, as a couple days ago she pushed Marcos, and she did the same last week to Joanca. So I told her I wouldn´t forgive her this time as it was the second time in the week. She was so sad, and in fact it was hard for me too, but for the sake of teaching her, I had to be tough about it. When they were all in bed getting ready to sleep, she tried to talk to me, but I told her, ¨I didn´t want to talk to you now!¨ Immediately she covered the blanket over her! It was quite funny actually at the time, and tia Sonia and I couldn´t help but giggle! Of course, the next day I was already talking to her, but I also reminded her not to cause any damage to others. So now she has been telling me what others do!

I have scheduled a few therapy sessions in the weekends I am here, and today I had four with the boys individually, including Ademir, Luigi, Renzo and Jeferson. They were really awful in the group session a few weeks back, so I figured that they aren´t ready for group work yet. Individually they did great and behaved like angels! And I think also that since the last horrific group session, I told them off seriously, and since then I didn´t do any therapy with them. So they were all pretty excited to do therapy again and therefore probably tried to behave better. There are a lot of skills they are lacking, such as basic cognitive skills, language, imaginative skills, positive values, just to name a few. I tried to do my best to facilitate with various activities so that they can take advantage of what I can do for them.