English Classes with Mr. Moran

This morning I headed to the medium girls house for circle, then our team had breakfast and we had a brief team meeting about what was going on today.  I headed to school with Mark Moran, who will be one of Alina's 6th grade teachers next year to work with him in the English classes.  His lesson reinforced English words through the teaching of drawing in 3-D.  It was very interesting for the students and most participated.

Mark teaching English through a drawing demonstration

After the first class, the students in the elementary school were released for recess, so we headed over to the high school where the students in Bachillerato 2 (last year of high school) were selling food to raise funds for their graduation.  These students need to pay for their clothing for graduation as well as all of the decorations, the graduation dinner and all other expenses that are included with this.  Since our breakfasts are so big at the team house, I wasn't hungry...but instead used money to buy each of the high school teachers a meal.  Doris helped me to deliver each of the meals.

After recess, we headed to the next class where Mark gave the same English lesson.  The students were so engaged!  After lunch, Mark's daughter Bekah and I spent the entire afternoon delivering invitations for the 2014 Honduras HoeDown.  I think that we pretty much circled the orphanage twice in the hot sun in order to track everyone down.

After classes were finished, about 3:30pm, I headed over to the farm where Justin and his grandmother Cindy had planned activities for the boys which included origami.  I translated for Justin, who showed the boys how to make a crane out of paper.  One of the boys already had experience with origami so he worked ahead, which was neat to see.

Our team left for La Chiquita (a restaurant in Guaimaca) with David & Lydia around 4:45.  It was nice and sort of a buffet style.  Since it was Lydia's birthday, we all sang happy birthday to her.  I also purchased a gift for my dad and the owner of the restaurant and gift shop (who was in her early 80s) laughed when I told her how my dad would use it...she said that her dad did the exact same thing and she had NEVER met anyone else who used this particular gift in this way.  I'm sorry if I can't give more details, but if my dad reads this, I don't want to give away the gift!  You can ask me for more info if you're curious.

From left to right: Michelle, Audrey, Kelsey, Heather, and Bekah at La Chiquita

We finished the evening by adding some color to the place mats that Erin had created for the HoeDown tomorrow.  I think we might have broken curfew by about 4 minutes in order to finish them all!!!