No Internet

This morning went a little more slowly for me since about half-way through the day yesterday I realized that I had used up the gigabytes I had purchased down here.  Technically if the days had expired first, I'd have internet usage through the last day I am in Honduras.  Perhaps it's all of the pictures I am posting this year online.  There is a girl down here who works in the 'tienda' named Carmen who knows how to add days, weeks, a month of time/gigabytes to the internet stick, but unfortunately she headed into Tegucigalpa (the capital) today and wouldn't be back until late.  So I would have to put off posting blogs for a while.

Alina was still sick, so we told her she needed to stay laying down and resting all day today - no exceptions.

My morning routine at the Toddler House stayed the same: cutting vegetables, taking the children to the 'sala' so that the teen moms could have their circle devotions, serving breakfast, and washing dishes.  I walked with the big girls to school to encourage them and say good luck since their mathematics exam was today.  I knew it was going to be difficult.  When I got back to the house, the children were in the 'sala' since the door to the toys storage room in the 'chosa' was still broken.  The 'sala' got very loud this morning since it is a lot smaller than the 'chosa' and keeping kids couped up that long is not an easy task.  It is the rainy season and had been raining on and off all morning, so going on a walk was out of the question.

We served lunch around 11am, I washed dishes and then headed back to my room to begin writing good-bye letters to a couple of children down here.  It is very common that the children write you on your last day here, so I figured I would need to get a head start since there were at least 3 letters that I needed to write.  We were still making sure Alina took her pills every 3 hours.  At 2pm I headed back to spend an hour with the toddlers before serving supper, doing dishes, and then helping Ana with showers.  After showers I headed home once more to give Alina another pill and then returned to the Toddler House to spend my last night helping Ana study for the mathematics part of her college entrance exam.  As I was working with Ana, Carmen came over to visit Lourdes.  I gave her my internet stick and she said she'd get it back to me tomorrow morning.