A special treat with "Miss A"

I have been trying to talk to the Psychologist at For His Children for about a week now..but we haven't ran into each other at the right time....but this morning she came into talk to me while I was working.....It was a wonderful little chat and left me full of joy and tears of happiness! (literally I cried when I left) She encouraged me to form a closer relationship with "miss A" and invited me to spend time with the two on them in the afternoon. So I could spend more one on one time with "miss A" and make it more personal. Of course their is a major langage barrier between us, which makes it hard, but we will have to overcome is sometime, so might as well work on it while we have the opportunity! 

We headed to Condado Shopping, the local mall...

They do this to introduce her to the world outside of the orphanage...

So she gets use to traffic, people and all the wonders of the outside world! She was very chatty on the way, Andrea the Psycologist knows some English so she helped out...

But when we walked into the mall, "miss A" just looked and watched! She was a little nervous, but she enjoyed looking around. We went to a book store and she just stood in amazement  It took her awhile before she would actually look at any books. Andrea was really great about giving us space and encouraged us to talk to each other even if we didn't understand what the other one was saying.

Then we walked around a clothing store and a shoe store, explaining to her what high heels are, apparently she thought someone had something sticking out of the bottom of their shoes when they came with heels on...

We went through a toy store too, but again, she just looked in wonder....

Then we went for ice cream...chocolate ice cream...does it get much better than this? She enjoyed her ice cream but I think she needs a little practise on licking it off the cone...

It was so special!

So after we got back to the orphanage, we had to stop and say hi, to Senior Lama... 

She wanted to take a picture of him too!

She was so excited to tell the tias about her time out...

I was very excited too! :) I'm so thankful that I met this little girl and for every moment we have shared....because I know....this is only the beginning....