When the adrenaline rush settled a little bit, I sat down with my online Proverbs31 devotions and my 'cafecito' to take in the beginnings of my day. After that, I updated my blog from yesterday and then worked on getting Alina up (which has been quite a lengthy process these past few days). We set out for the Toddler House, cut carrots and then took the children into the 'sala' so that the big girls could do their circle devotions together. Then we helped serve breakfast and washed the dishes.
Since it was Thursday, after dishes were done, Alina and I headed to the school so that I could work with the five 4th graders on reading. While I was reading with one of the boys, Profesor Ramon approached me and asked if I could work through 3 problems that were on the upcoming test the students were to take on Tuesday. He had worked through the answers, but wanted to discuss these 3 problems. He had them written down for me so that I could take them with me (since all 3 problems were of very different types: step function, ellipse with foci, and a circle problem...for those of you that know your math). I told him that I could meet with him tomorrow morning to go through the answers that I got. Alina and I finished up with the children and reading and then we headed to the 'tienda' since we missed lunch at the Toddler House. A volunteer by the name of Devin came over and chatted with us for quite a while.
When the big girls were back in their yard during the lunch hour, Alina and I took the last 2 chocolate muffins and 3 Mexican suckers each to Yensi and Coco, twins that were celebrating their birthday today. We walked with them to school for the afternoon, and when they went into class, we headed back to the Toddler House. Marisela was having a mini-birthday party for her daughter Perla. We had given her a dress (donated by a coworker of mine) and she was so excited to wear it today.
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| Marisela with her daughter Perla on her 3rd birthday |
This afternoon we served supper, did the dishes, and then I spent the next couple of hours working with Zelenes and Deisy on their math problems, while Alina went with some of the teen moms and the other 2 volunteers from Ireland to the big swing (a big ropes swing, kind of scary) that the Team decided to run with the girls. When she got back it was getting dark and time to get back to our room. It gets dark here around 6pm, which probably seems a little odd to those of us in Wisconsin, especially since it's still light around 8pm in the summer,..I'm thinking that with the mountains here, that has a lot to do with the sun going down earlier - compared to our REALLY FLAT land in Wisconsin.
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