Alina finally felt a little bit better to come along with me to the Toddler House. There were no veggies to cut this morning, so we just watched the television with the children in the 'comedor' (dining hall), and watched a really pretty moth for a bit until it was time to eat. Karla, who is usually in charge of the Toddler House, had the day off; but it seemed that all of the teen moms were able to work through this and they actually got breakfast and cleaning done early...AND got to school early! I'm guessing it's because they didn't take the extra time to do their circle devotions.
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| Beautifully colored moth |
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| Big Toddler Girls |
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| Zelenes with her Big Toddler Boys |
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| Jeremias (striped shirt) praying before breakfast |
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| Marisela with her Little Toddler Girls |
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| Ana and Alina with the Little Toddler Boys |
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| Vilma sitting down for breakfast with her Little Toddler Girls |
I walked to school with the girls since it was my last day teaching reading. Rachel will be taking over for me, so she was with me again this morning. I worked with the first 2 students since she didn't meet them last Thursday when she shadowed me and then she worked with the rest as I watched her. The very last girl, Skarlett Michell let Rachel know that she would not see Rachel on Thursday. When Rachel asked why not, Skarlett said that she'd be in Tegucigalpa. Almost every day a few children have to go into the capital for their annual doctor's appointment. I knew that there were 2 going into Tegucigalpa on Thursday for their appointment, so I asked her if she had an appointment and she said, 'yes'. We found out later in the afternoon that Skarlett had run away from the orphanage after lunch with 2 other girls...so I guess that was the REAL reason that she wouldn't see Rachel on Thursday.
When the reading classes were done, Alina and I headed to the 'tienda' to get the internet stick from Carmen and then I headed back to the room to finish my last letter to one of the orphans here at Emmanuel. We sorted through laundry and began to bag up a lot of our clothes that we brought down to wear down here for the last time, as we would leave them down here. We tend to come down here with very full suitcases (this year we had a 3rd suitcase of all of the donations that Alina had received from her birthday party) and we leave with fairly empty suitcases. Actually if you count Bob's suitcase, we came down with 4 suitcases and will only be leaving with two!
We headed to the Toddler House to serve the last supper this year and then help put the children to bed. I gave each of the children a passion fruit sucker that I had bought in town and then gave the moms a Mexican chili-coated mango sucker. I left Zelenes with a big bag of my clothes, my shampoo and conditioner, an almost full huge bottle of lotion and a bag of 40 chili suckers, and also gave her the note I had written for her.
We left early tonight so that we could get ALL of the last of the donations (soccer balls, badminton set, last pair of shoes and all of the clothing) out to their respective houses. Each spot that we stopped was SO grateful for what we were leaving with them.
We spent our last hour before going to bed with the Karen, Lucy and Michell in the big girls yard. Karen and Lucy hadn't eaten much supper since the 'tia' (night lady) had said she'd bring in a special dish for them. Unfortunately she forgot to ask permission (which is MUST), so she wasn't able to bring it. Alina mentioned to them that Bob had cooked a really good dish with eggs and vegetables for supper and that there were tons of left-overs. I still hadn't tried it, but was more than willing to let the girls have it to eat. Alina and Karen walked over to our kitchen in the dark to heat it up and bring it back. They came back with the bowl and 3 forks and couldn't stop complimenting Bob's AWESOME cooking! Lucy said she had never had anything that good in her life! We chatted a bit more before saying our goodbyes, giving Michell the note I had written for her, and then headed back to our room to get a good night's sleep for our trip to Tegucigalpa tomorrow.
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