Trabajo de Rotary para la Navidad

The last two weekends Ive been doing work with my Rotary club here helping to give presents to underprivileged children in Peru. About an hour outside of the city of Lima up in the mountains is a very poor part of Peru so we travelled up there in bus and began doing Santa's work! We worked from the kids' school and all of the kids came there while we spent the day entertaining them, feeding them, and keeping them out of trouble. Entertaining involved singing to them and me personally dressing up as a princess haha and feeding them involved a traditional fruitcake called panettone which I guess is popular in some parts of South America and Europe. Panettone is insanely popular here and you can find in in nearly every peruvians house during christmas time here. Theres four in my house right now, but thats another story! So, after the children were entertained by us, an actual company comes in and puts on a real show for them and the kids play games and win prizes and its a great time for them, and us because we can get a little break! It gets so hot up in the mountains and especially now that summer is beginning, the heat was killer! Once the show ends we corral all the little kids into different classrooms and watched over them until they got called out to go and finally receive their gifts, which is what these kids are really looking forward to. As we were waiting in the classroom the kids were telling me what they asked santa for and one kid told me that he had no toys in his house so he just asked for anything to play with, which broke my heart but I was happy because we were there to help him and now he would have a toy for christmas. After all the kids had been given their gifts and sent back home we helped clean up everything and when we finally got back on the bus we were all sleeping because we were so tired!  This was the first weekend and we worked with about 800 kids, the second weekend we had 1500 kids! It actually turned out easier the second weekend because they were all kept in bleachers watching some form of entertainment instead of running around us going crazy like the first time. It was nice to do some volunteer work during christmas time and i was really glad i got to help out and make some christmases better for these kids.