Dock Sud, BA

Today we caught the sardine subway to Retiro and met Gerson our guide from BAICA, who is their school counsellor. We then caught the bus to Dock Sud and walked to Marcellena and Marcelleno's house where we were introduced to their family in Spanish, Gerson then translated for us! The family runs the local community centre from their house. Once we met the family we took a scenic tour to the school.

Once we arrived at the school and met some of the students and had photos with them. Then we got into maintenance work in their hall by sanding the walls ready for painting. We then went to Marcelleno/a's house for a typical argentinian lunch. We think it was veal parmagiana with rice and potato's. The servings were huge and the boys had to help out with finishing off the girls meals. After a nice lunch we took a detour and helped raise the Argentinian and Cape Verde (many locals immigrated from Cape Verde - off the coast of Africa) flag to half mast for the first elected democratic leader who died recently.

Once we arrived back at the school we began painting the edges of the walls in preparation for a hard day of painting tomorrow. We really enjoyed the day and mingling with the children, playing soccer with a water bottle and getting to know a different culture and a day in the life of the Marcelino family and their community outreach.

Love Me and Se (Megan and Sarah)