We headed to the Toddler House and went about our normal morning routine: cutting vegetables, taking care of the kids in the 'sala' while the big girls and teen moms did their circle devotions, serving breakfast and then taking the children to the 'chosa'. Today I walked to school with the girls because Profesor Ramon wanted me to help while he taught a lesson on the equations of circles in class. Although when I got to school, I found out that there was a "miscommunication"...he fully anticipated me to teach the lesson. The good thing is that, as a geometry teacher, I teach this lesson multiple times each year (as I generally have 2-3 geometry classes)...so I could "wing" the lesson. It actually went very well and in the end, I had the students work in pairs to complete a more difficult problem and if they graphed the circle, they got a 'paleta' (Mexican chili covered mango sucker). Every student got one. The students later told me that: 1) their teacher never lets them work in pairs or groups, and 2) I made the lesson SO EASY for them! YAY!
Today was Claudia's birthday, so we got her some 'churros' (chips) from the 'tienda' and also gave her 3 'paletas'. We also brought her a pair of the running tennis shoes that were donated for Alina's birthday, since she is a size 8 and doesn't have tennis shoes to play soccer in...and she's probably the BEST female soccer player! She plays in her crocs.
I went back to our room for lunch because Profesor Ramon gave me 3 more problems to solve from the test that the students were supposed to have for tomorrow (although he told me that due to a teacher's conference in town, there would be no classes tomorrow and the test would be pushed back to Monday). I told him that I'd get the problems solved over lunch and get them back when school resumed at 1:00pm.
When we headed back to our room after dropping off my solutions to the test problems, we stopped to chat with Kim (Elizabeth's mom) about measuring the medium girls and the big girls. She had done measuring at all of the other houses and just needed these two houses done. I let her know that I'd be able to measure all day tomorrow and see how much Alina and I could get done. Alina seemed to be occupied while I was talking to Kim and when we said our goodbyes, I saw why. She found a little friend on one of the flag poles!!! I let her know that she should put it in the shade so it didn't bake out in the hot sun.
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| Alina and her little friend |
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| A close-up of her little friend |
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