Favorite Part of Safe Passage - Jackson

My favorite part of the trip was lunch with Astrid (Jackson’s sponsor child).  She got all dressed-up in high heels, a dress, and a leopard print cloak.  She looked like a little princess.  It was adorable.  She was extremely excited and nervous about going out to lunch with her “padrino” (sponsor).  We left after she was singing and dancing and waving scarves to K-non.  As we got into the bus, she said that she wanted to go to McDonald’s.  Her favorite food is hamburgers.  She was very shy and could only talk with the Safe Passage sponsor support person.  We had a small discussion about colors, and then we arrive at McDonald's.  She was visibly excited as we hopped out of the van.  She grasped my hand and gave me a nervous smile.  We went in and she told me that she wanted a Happy Meal.  As she chose her toy I ordered our food.  We waited and sat by the play place.  As we sat she daintily removed the fries from the Happy Meal box.  She then informed me that she had selected the Tweety Bird toy.  She finished her fries and went to play on the play place.   She made a friend who would cry when he couldn’t see her.  After about a half an hour and her trying to scare me by sneaking up and shouting “Boo!”, she decided she was hungry and ate about half a burger, pineapple and drank her anaranjada.  After this she was literally bouncing off the walls.  She eventually got bored so we opened her gifts.  She loved them and we spent the rest of the time drawing.