Annual Christmas party POSADA for the teens!

Yesterday was the culmination of 6 months of serious preparation for the annual La Bocana Beca Blanca teen party. It went off so well. The kids were radiant!!

Of the 24 students, 7 were not able to come due to not being done with classes yet. Present were 17 students.

Here I am organizing the boxes outside on the patio - in front of each one was a laundry soap and dishwashing soap. On the top of each box was a special wrapped t-shirt which I buy in San Diego at the t-shirt mart. Inside each box are clothes, pens and pencils and markers and highliters as well as fun stuff for all.







Here is a table we put together with school supplies:






Last year they so liked the room with household stuff that I did a repeat this year...you should have seen their smiles!!







and of course silverware







Here they are getting ready to open gifts:








Each one got a brand new t-shirt.








and shorts - the boys get at least two each.









and here they are coming out of the household goods room. Like I say, this was a hit!

We had lunch together - the local cooperative donated a leg of pork and also offered to cook it. It was so delicious! My neighbor Mary made a great broccoli salad as well as a pasta dish (tradition at this party now) and I made a cole slaw. For dessert I made brownies that Mary donated since I ran out, I made 2 chocolate cakes, I made a key lime pie.

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm











Thanks to each and every one of you that gave a supporting word, that was kind enough to bring down donations, that helped with cash for me to buy goodies, thanks (major thanks) to my Mom who does garage sales every single weekend ! She wheels and deals like no one else LOL. Thanks to the kind person who donated the English - Spanish dictionaries last year - each of the current high school seniors got one. Thanks to the donator who gave those incredible pens - they are so pretty. Thanks to those who brought pencils. I gave each one 10 pencils to last the whole year!

It was a grand day yesterday. I cannot tell you how happy I was to be able to meet with the kids. As we do every year, the future college students got to ask what college was going to be like and the older students gave their words of wisdom: don't procrastinate, learn how to cook, learn how to clean and mostly, focus on time management.

Martha told how she was so homesick at first. She also told everyone that she won first place last week with her pate project (competing with 70 other teams). Dayr told everyone to prepare to "suffer". Julian won three prizes with a project he did. Alexis explained his internship at El Boleo.

We focused on interview techniques, from how to shake a hand properly to what employers were looking for in an employee.




Here we are! MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!

Very nice Blanca!

Quote: Originally posted by BajaTed

The Posada is the big annual get together for the scholarship fund in our community also. People getting real for other people Rosy world of a fuzzy future: Wouldn't it be great if there were a whole network of Baja Nomad supported scholarship funds for the whole length of Baja. Geez, must be time for my meds

Merry Christmas! Thanks for the kind words all!