Day 5: Monday: Let the Games Begin!!

Slept in a bit today....lots of sun yesterday from the boat!  Made a Starbucks run and then up to Ventanilla we went.  Another delicious lunch & potty stop at Metro before making the climb.
Today we start our after-school activities.  Most of the kids in Las Lomas attend school in the morning and then have nothing to do in the afternoon except find trouble.  Students in Peru only attend for a 1/2 a day:  either morning or afternoon, due to space & resources. So, some kids go from 8-12 and others go from 2-6.  The V4P pre-school goes in the morning only.  As the kids have nothing to do in the afternoon, we offer activities for them to come to & participate.  We did some musical chairs first, trying to draw the kids down to the court.  We then divided up with a PV kid as a captain and they had to pick their team names.
We then did a bunch of relay games.  First up:  Dress Like a Gringo.  We found shoes, shorts, shirt & a sweater for an adult & the kids had to put all of that on and run down around a cone & back, and then take it all off so the next kid could go - hilarious watching them run in clothes that are WAAAAY to big for them!!!  Lots of giggles & laughs!  Then we grabbed some balls and practiced their dribbling skills around chairs.  We did multiple versions of that and then ended in Tug-of-War!  The different teams played against each other and then we combined them, and then we did a Peruanos vs. Gringos!  The Peruanos won and boy was there quite the celebration!!!!
We had the kids sit with their teams while we calculated the scores & awarded candy for the top 2 teams and invited everyone back tomorrow!!!  A very successful 1st day!!
Said our good-byes and down the hill we went - dinner time - and then off to soccer.  There are 3 different divisions of soccer:  Juniors, 2nd Division & 1st division.  They practice on a smaller, turf field so we went to watch practice.  Ava & Sydney even participated in the drills as well as the scrimmage!  Way to represent, chicas!!
As the sun was out earlier in the day, it was quite warm, but as the sun sets, it gets quite chilly, so luckily we came to practice prepared with sweatshirts, blankets, etc...  We stayed for part of the big kids' practice and then home we went.
A very busy, but fun &productive 1st day of camp!!!