Let Them Eat Cake

Tuesday 13 October

Today I was greeted with one of the most friendliest welcomes at the safe house, as soon as I was let into the house a couple of the girls came running over to me and flung there arms around me giving me the most biggest hug and promptly thereafter pulled me by my arm to the table where they were making friendship bracelets, they then proceeded to tie not one, not two or even three but four friendship bracelets around my wrist. I couldn't´t believe how much affection they had for me having only known me for less than two weeks and despite the fact that our conversations were mainly via body language and animated actions due to my lack of Spanish speaking skills. Having been on the receiving end of such a lovely welcome I knew that stopping off at the patisserie to pick up a chocolate cake for the girls on my way into the safe house was a very good idea!


Soon after my warm welcome it became very apparent that the girls are all so very warm hearted, welcoming and accepting of others. A new mother and her son arrived at the safe house today shortly after I did as a result of a court order for their protection. The little boy is five years old and very quiet, the girls asked the boys mother if the boy could speak and if he was OK, to which the mother replied that he spoke very little, this however, was not a problem as they soon took him under their wings and made him very welcome as you can see...















When the girls saw the chocolate cake their immediate reaction was to ask me if it was my last day with them and when I said no they went on to ask whose birthday it was, I explained that it was´nt my last day and nor was it anybody´s birthday which puzzled them because they could not understand why I had taken a cake in for them. Whilst I have not become case hardened to what I learn about the girls I have now come to accept and understand that these girls have very little or next to nothing of what you and I would consider to be the norm/the expected in life which relates to the most trivial of things from eating cake for no special reason, to being given unconditional love and care that we all receive from family and friends and so what I want to achieve is to try and introduce these day to day things into their lives and to try and give to them as best as I can in the given situation some love affection and normality by way of what may seem to us to be very small things but mean so much to the girls.


The chocolate cake certainly proved to be the flavour of the day going down well with all...
in fact some just couldn't´t get enough of it so naturally with this being a case involving chocolate cake the situation understandably called for desperate measures...










That´s all for now folks until next time ciao!