I generally get up around 4am here so that I can have my devotional time with God and journal. Then with the time left over, I try to get online to blog a bit if the internet is working. If it's not working, I have a word search book that my mom had given me a couple of year ago or I have a book to read. This morning, since the internet was not working...it hasn't been working for the past week...I was doing the word search. When Alina's alarm went off and she sat up in bed, she said (1/2 tired yet), "There's a cockroach next to my bed!" Sure enough, I'm guessing one had fell in through the cracks in the ceiling from the roof and it was lying on its back. The cockroaches down here are huge, about 1.5-2 inches long (and that's just the BODY). I went over to check it out and the legs were still moving, so giggling I said to Alina that she should get the broom and sweep it out. She didn't want to at first. I let her know that if it had been a tarantula or a scorpion, I would've swept it out. But it's a cockroach!...they don't bite, they just run really fast and look gross. So she went to get the broom and "slowly" tried to sweep it out. If you know anything about cockroaches, then you can probably guess what happened next. Because Alina didn't sweep it out using quick strokes, the cockroach grabbed the bristles of the broom and flipped itself over, and then sprinted underneath her suitcase. She freaked out! At that point there was no calming her down, so I told her to lift the suitcase while I held the broom (she didn't even want to lift the suitcase)...and when she did I quickly swept it out of the room onto the grass.
On the way to the toddler house I let Alina know that today way our 1/2-way point in this trip. She took a few more steps and said, "It only feels like I've been here a couple of days." I laughed and replied that it HAD to have been more because we had a whole team down here at the beginning for 11 days!
After cutting vegetables and serving breakfast, I headed with Melinda and Heather (two ladies from the AL team) to the school to remeasure the medium girls from Vero Castro's house. Elizabeth was pretty sure that many of these measurements were off too. I believe that we got all but about 2 measured.
I stopped at the tienda to check in with Carmen who knows about the Claro internet modem sticks and she said that most likely the problem was that the 7 free days that came with the stick were put on it but that the internet stick was never activated, even though the month was purchased. This did not really sit well with me. She let me know that she'd look more into it after church this evening because her phone didn't have enough minutes on it to check at that time. While I was at the store, Alina noticed a Coca-Cola bottle with Andres' name on it. I guess Coke is putting names on bottles now? Anyway, I had to purchase it and hope that it makes it back to the States without exploding on the plane.
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| Anyone recognized this name?...and it even has the accent too! |
We headed back to the Toddler House at 2:15pm to wake the kiddos from their naps and play with them for an hour before suppertime. After supper, they got their normal showers as I washed the dishes and they were sent to bed. Everybody was rushing because there was church this evening and it starts at 4:30. Alina and I barely made it back to our room to change clothes and get to church on time.
After church I took the internet stick to Carmen and she was able to fix it. I was SO appreciative for what she did, but now I'll be super busy for the next bunch of mornings trying to catch up on devotions!
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