Mark Beckers

Today, we had the beautiful opportunity to spend time in the village of La Vega. The kiddos are amazing and very responsive and surprising easily to interact with us. It was fun to hold them, make sounds, and attempt to communicate between our english, Spanish, Creole and some french. They were very tuned into watching cartoons like "Tom & Jerry" and "Bear Necessity" on the parents devices.

Later I was interacting with another group of kiddos by placing each other hands one on top of the other four to six high calling out 1, 2 and 3 throwing up all our hands in the air and shouting yea!!!!

What really amazed me was how well they shared and spent time together with me. I felt the parent really trusted me with their kiddos.

Needing a breaking after having endless fun I stepped outside only to find a young girl of about 5 years. She was bouncing a soccer ball. I motioned for her to throw it to me and we spent the hour interacting by tossing, bouncing and spinning the ball together. Other kiddos would join in and share the time with us. This whole experience was fun, exciting and pure joy being here and interacting everyone. Thank you! See y'all soon!!! Senior Mark