Learning a new game - Cova Bia

Drinking "soda" or "pop" from recyclable glass bottles (the original way!) has the side benefit of providing toys for the kids -  bottle caps!


 For a while now, our kids have watched the village kids play a game on the porch that we originally heard called "Pressie", but is now commonly called "Cova Bia" ("Cover Beer" - as most of the village kids' bottle caps are from glass beer bottles!).  Our kids have finally been taught how to play - it's not their favorite thing, but it gives them something to do when it's either very rainy or very hot.



 It's basically "football" (soccer) on the porch; the bottle caps are the "players", a tiny round object (bit of tin foil, or a papaya seed, or ??) is the ball, and the bottle cap players are flicked so they hit the ball to another player.






Usually the goals are made out of used AA batteries (the uprights) with a stick across them, but K made his out of Tinkertoy pieces :).

Meanwhile, L has finally made some friends.  Two girls from the neighborhood (one from right next door) have been coming to play with her - hanging around the porch, or joining her in climbing trees or playing soccer.  It's definitely a good thing :).