Kimberly Moves In

Just like back in the States, on Sunday there is church.  The difference between here & the States is that church begins at 8:30 and lasts just under 2 hours.  I let Alina know this before we headed there, because since she's been raised as a Lutheran, she's very used to those hour-long services; and I didn't want her repeating over & over, "When will this be over?"

Normally volunteers go to the store on Sundays to get lunch together.  Most times they take children from the orphanage with them.  Today I decided that since we'd have quite a few Sundays where we could take children, that I'd just spend lunch with Alina.  The menu item was pizza and I do have to say I was a little bummed that it wasn't a Honduran dish.  :-(

After lunch, we spent some time with Leticia and Yency in the big girls' yard.  They wanted to know if Alina could ride a bike, so they lent them the only bike they had in the yard (which was a little too big for Alina) and then sent her on her way.  It was a little difficult since Wisconsin is so FLAT and she had lots of hills to ride up & down in the yard, and since it was all grass rather than on roads, but she did it.

I came home and worked more on my reading for classes tomorrow.  I got the first book all planned out.  The title of the book is 'Alto Secreto' which means Top Secret in English.  So I was quick to say, "One down, three to go!" (in terms of the books I had to read).

Kimberly moved in after church today.  She just had 2 more loads to bring over, so tonight will be her first night in the house.  She had quite a bit of stuff...but I'm very glad she's here.  I now have access to an internet stick, which is a modem via a USB.  I had planned on buying one in Tegucigalpa, but Kimberly mentioned that it would be no problem to share.  Now I can get caught up on my devotions each morning, making sure any important email gets taken care of (since I'll be down here right up until I head to work at Oshkosh North), and also get this blog updated fairly quickly.  :-)

Before the night was over, Alina & I headed to the team house to visit with Joanne.  While I'm in classes each morning for this coming week, Alina will head with the Maryland team to do various volunteer work.  She was excited to get to work with them again (did I mentioned the team misses Andres?).  In the afternoons, she'll come back my way or go to the medium girls' house.  After making sure everything would work out with Alina's arrangements, we headed back to the apartment to turn in for the night.