All of us here at Putney LLARG are in awe of the fact that 3 days ago, none of us knew each other. We are settled into the Villa, where we have a Lady House and a Dude House (I keep trying to get everyone to break into gendered song, a la the movie Grease, to no avail!) and an excellent common space to cook meals, do our Spanish games and lessons, and hold our meetings. The Villa is a little chilly at night, as evidenced by this hilarious photo of our girls wearing their Davy Crockett fur-lined hunting hats, but for the most part we are adjusting to the mild Argentine winter and had beautiful weather today.
Our days have been jam-packed! Yesterday we started our service projects at La Escuela del Pueblo Nuevo and at la finca de Carlos Keen, an organic farm that also serves as a home for orphaned boys. We returned to both sites today, where one group of students learned how to make pan con cebollas with a group of chefs and another group taught English to a group of students in the Pueblo Nuevo high school. Our Putney group planned lessons together that included games of Simon Says and tag designed to teach English, and later we got a chance to play futbol with some of the Argentine boys. Matt and I wanted to share these lovely photos with you--we are incredibly proud of our group!!
We just returned from a tour of the Basilica de la Virgen de Lujan, one of the most important pilgrimage sites in all of Latin America. Tomorrow is another service day, and on July 3-4 while you guys are spitting out watermelon seeds and watching fireworks we will be bravely rafting down the Rio Tigre on our Dia de Canoas and then heading to BUENOS AIRES!
More soon and un beso enorme,
Karen, Matt, y Grupo Putney LLARG
