How are the kids selected to go on the different trips and excursions?
With over 400 boys and girls living with us 24/7 it is impossible and logistically a nightmare to plan activities or trips for all at the same time. Each trip, excursion or activity is appropriate for certain age or grade level. With so many field days or field trips everyone gets to go somewhere, sometime. Every Wednesday, for example, we get to take 25 children to the movies thanks to a Guatemalan friend that has made this arrangement. Who gets to go? It all depends on the movie. If the movie is a cartoon; then the littlest get to go. The older ones are chosen when it is something appropriate for their age. With 50 or so Wednesdays in a year; each child may get to go two or three times to the movies in the course of a year. When going to the Zoo, a stones throw from Mi Casa, we can take between 100 to 200 children at the same time. If the little ones are going we take cars and form a small caravan. If the older ones are going then we walk. Again, it all depends on the activity.
