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Earlier this month I wrote about some Latin American children who recently visited Most Holy Trinity School and students from 9 other diocesan elementary and high schools on a thank you tour for supporting them. I posted a video report about their visit.

A blog from an American perspective on life with los niños.

A short time later, the St. John Bosco principal told me that her niece works at one of the orphanages. She’s been working at an orphanage near Cuernavaca, Mexico since July and seemingly updates a blog about the experience every week or so. Check it out.

Some recent posts talk about:

• Thanksgiving — which the children don’t celebrate, but the American staff worked half a day and then observed the holiday.
• Turning 23 – It’s an NPH tradition that if it’s your birthday you get thrown in the fountain, and I got thrown in three times, all in good fun.
• An upcoming soccer tournament (week of Nov. 29) among five different Nuetros Pequeños Hermanos homes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Mexico. What’s cool about this is that the competition features players that our diocesan students sponsor and write regularly.
• Quinceañeras — Even though the girls grow up in minimal conditions, the NPH homes still make turning 15 special for the girls. The home recently organized the popular coming-of-age religious ceremony for Hispanics. The quinceañera featured a Mass, waltz, special dinner and dancing. Quinceañeras are popular in the Phoenix Diocese as well. Volunteers, through the help of Make-A-Wish, put one on about a year ago for a young girl in terminal stages of a disease.