Hello everyone!!!
It’s Vanessa and Remi ❤️! Today was pretty hectic but such an amazing day! We were in charge of CAP (Community Action Project) day – Vanessa woke up at 6 am and Remi woke up at 6:3am (Vanessa takes longer 👩🏻🦯). We woke everyone else at 7 a.m. and did little check-ins before breakfast to make sure we were early (we were still late). We headed to Isabel’s place where we had emborrajados (fried bananas basically), watermelon, and sunny-side-up eggs (Isabel’s food is amazing:)). We then headed straight to our partners’ community – Despertar de los Angeles – where we immediately began starting our groups and executing our plans! We had Allrich, Cynthy, Kareen, and Angel in the gardening group to start planting the flowers for the entrance to the horse therapy area in which children receive visual and physical stimulation therapy! We then had Alfonsina, Kai, Dennis, Sekou, Izaiah, and Iggy in the sprinkler group! They were in charge of replacing the sprinklers to ensure that they can wet the sand so that the dust doesn’t fly everywhere! Our largest group was the painting group which consisted of Anabel, Josse, Remi, Vanessa, Teish, Gianny, Jazmin, Keilyn, Jennifer, Chloe, Carina, Saabriah, Madison, and Dina. The painting section was very hectic. We made some good progress in the beginning but then ran out of paint mid-way 😔 rip. We then went on a “short” break and had snacks yay😊. A new horse arrived and we were accompanied by members of the community including the wife of the Mayor of Riobamba. We were able to name the horse for them, so we took a vote and decided to name him Angelito 🤍! It took a while for more paint to arrive, so in the meantime some of us helped out with the gardening (it was back-breaking work and some brave soldiers collected horse poop💩 to use as fertilizer). Our paint finally arrived after we had a scrumptious meal from Isabel – it was spaghetti with beef and some pineapple juice. The sprinkler specialist came in and took over the task, so the people working in that group decided to help out the painting group which was much needed. We painted for a long time and finally stopped at 4 p.m. We then headed back to the hotel where we had almost 2 hours of free time YAY! Then we all headed to Isabel’s for dinner where we had a salad, rice, steak with carrots, and chocolate muffins🥹! We headed back to the hotel for our nightly meeting where we passed the torch 🔥 to Carina who showed off her multi-tasking abilities by spinning a rod while doing calligraphy with the other hand 😱. We reviewed everyone’s comments from the last post! P.S, Remi’s parents need to comment more (she says they hate her) and Vanessa says “Los quiero mucho” to all her family and friends(she’ll excuse it because she knows they suck with technology…). Also parents/friends, please be advised that the next phone call will be on Sunday!! We miss you and can’t wait to see you all 🥰.
Love,
your favorite leaders of the group 🫡💪
Hi baby it’s Tenzin your boyfriend again I’m happy to see you are enjoying and having fun, I also am happy to see your being safe, me, mano, Luna, your mom and dad miss and love you very dearly. Kai Brodie glad you doing well too and enjoying Brodie missin you too brodie
Kai (KEILYN MISSES YOU MORE) is missing you too
Vanessa & Remi, wonderful writeup!! Remi, I’m glad that you acquired these painting skills — I have a few projects to give you when you get home. Sounds like you’re having a great time. Enjoy and stay safe! p.s., Remi – WRONG!! we love you, of course. We just need to get you to take your clothes out of the dryer is all. =)
Love, Dad
Yes Madison being a painter!! 🎨⭐️
Miss youu sounds like u guys are having a wonderful time 🙂
WOW!!! It looks amazing!!! Congrats to all of you guys for the hard work! (Chloe mommy loves you!!)
Remi I literally lol’ed. Be careful what you wish for. Maybe I’ll comment incessantly now 🙂 I honestly didn’t know if you’d even see these comments b/c you’re disconnected but then there was a pic of you guys with the comments projected onto a screen and i felt bad. I love your and Vanessa’s blog post. It was very funny. Hope your CAP project goes well. Looks like you’re making a lot of progress. What a great thing you all are doing for the community!. Sounds like you’re making up for years of not eating red meat, too! Yummy steak (not yummy guinea pig). Love and miss you! Can’t wait to talk on Sunday! What a treat!
Good Morning Glimpsers! Carina I am so happy that you will be “Lider del Dia”. I know you will be great. I was so happy to hear your voice yesterday. I love to see how everyone wok so hard.
Love, Carmen
Great 1st day, Keep up all of your hard work. You are making your family very proud. Kaisean, remember when you said you don’t know how you were gonna last with out your phone for two weeks? Look, at you now, laughing, loving and living life. You can do anything you put your mind to.
Love you lots, miss you always.
Mom, Zay & Mai
P.S. Grandma, Raven, Shaye and all your Aunts said hello and they miss you!
Teishani, I see that you are working really hard. You can help me with the painting 🖼 ☺️ at home.
Everyone sends their love ❤️ especially those from Church.
Can’t wait to see you. Looking forward to hearing from you again on Sunday.
Love you very much. Stay well
Mom 👩
I love you too and I miss you more. See you soon mwah
Hola Vanessa te extrañamos mucho , espero y te la Estes pasando bien
Te quiero mucho mami y los veo pronto
Go Gardening Group! Go Sprinkler Group! Go Painting Group! I LOVE seeing the CAP plans in motion!!!! I feel tired thinking about all your work but it must feel so rewarding. So cool that you got to meet the first lady of Riobamba and you got to name Angelito. Such a beautiful name! You all are doing great things….keep up the awesome job! Thanks Vanessa and Remi! Carina, can’t wait to read your post…one request please…more pics please….pretty please…with a cherry on top! 🙂
(Happy Friday Madison! It’s been super hot and humid here in NY so enjoy the cooler weather in Riobamba. Daddy told me you love the weather there. BTW, my coworker shared with me an article about Federal Reserve Bank and Taylor Swift which I will share with you when I went back. I took the opportunity to share with them that you are a Swiftie and I showed off your denim jacket designs. Many hearted the pic i shared. Perfect segue to surprise songs this week. Don’t worry, I didn’t forget my duty! Missing ya lots but love seeing what you’re experiencing there. I’m counting the days to Sunday to hear your voice again! Love, love, love you! TIAB!)
Ciao Chloe! it’s amazing to see what you guys are doing there, it all seems super exciting and fun! So much to discover and learn… Muñaño says ‘sientas bien y siestas buenas’ 😀 and here are some silly/funny videos as promised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB5VqPFxzQ8. Miss you and can’t wait for you to tell us everything.
Love, dad & Ale
hooray remi for leader of the day!!! madison u seem like ur having sm fun <3 and meeting the mayor of riobamba??? ur taking over the workd one step at a time. mysmmmm