So this morning we decided Alina would go with Bob for the day & work like a "varon" (male). While I was working on breakfast for my little girls and getting them ready for school, Alina & Bob headed to the front of the team house where the road is going in. Unfortunately by the time I got over there to take a picture of Alina working, the work was just finishing up and the California team was about to head out. So the only picture I got was of a very dusty/dirty Alina standing and watching the team get ready to head out.
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| Bob & Alina (after cement work) saying Goodbye to the California Group |
There were 2 men from the California team that had some pretty bad burns around their ankles because they didn't bring work boots to wear while doing cement. They would ooze each day after showering. It looked so painful.
I headed to school and Leslie was there to start her first "en necesidad" class. Robert (the director of the school) met me before class started and was asking about how the classes were going & if I had seen any improvement. We chatted a bit before he had to tend to other things in the school. Leslie did great with her first class, and after shadowing me the rest of the day, I turned the 4th & 5th grade folders over to her so she can do the classes next week beginning on Monday. I kept the 6th grade folder & said I'd try to finish the Narnia book & get all the preparations/notes done for her before I left.
After doing cement, Alina & Bob headed to do a bunch of odds 'n ends with plumbing issues and to try to solve the big water leak problem that Wade had mentioned to Bob. They also got some practice with the cows...in both herding them in and also milking them.
When classes were over, I headed with the little girls to lunch, and since there was no afternoon class we went to the yard out front to play afterwards. Yolani took me to her costura (sewing) class where she showed me a skirt she had finished. It's really nice to see the girls learning a trade here, and Yolani did an amazing job on the skirt!
As I was heading back to the little girls' house, I saw the medium girls in the yard and stopped since they were about to have ensenanza. They asked the pastor from the Ohio group to do the ensenanza and he talked about running a race and keeping your eyes on the finish line...both in the literal sense (because he competes in marathons) and in the spiritual sense. Then he asked the girls to race him...and said that if anyone beat him, he'd buy them a soda. There was only 1 girl that beat him, and she ran barefoot!
After this ensenanza, I saw the little girls coming back to their house, so went to get them their supper and showered. At 6:00pm, the volunteers had a bonfire and made bread on a stick. Bob & Alina came with me and Alina & I enjoyed bread filled with peanut butter & chocolate chips, while Bob chose to fill his bread with honey.
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