Alina Gets Sick

Alina let me know this morning when I woke up that she had been up quite a few times during the night with trips to the bathroom.  I won't get into too many details, but she was pretty sick.  I'm guessing it was from the VERY ripe mango she ate last night.  She didn't seem to have a fever, so we left her with a bunch of liquids and imodium tablets to take while resting.

Noah and I headed out for the day (and stopped back every 1-2 hours to check on Alina) to measure many of the bigger girls that we weren't able to get during the week, due to them being in school or around the orphanage.  This took us the majority of the day, and we still have a bunch left to do...but we did make some BIG accomplishments with that.  We also got all of the 2 medium girls' houses measured.

Just before supper, we stopped back to the room for a break and to check on Alina and saw that the big boys were down at the soccer field by the school.  Alina was sitting on the steps getting some fresh air at this point, and pointed out that Luis David had the goalie shirt on that we had given him for Christmas.  One of my coworkers is the boys varsity coach at Oshkosh North and had given me an old goalie jersey.  It definitely got put to good use.  Unfortunately when I walked down to the field, I forgot to bring the camera to take a picture.  Perhaps I'll catch him wearing it again soon.

At the end of the evening, I spent about a 1/2 hour with one of the visitors that has a room right next to us.  She is a math major and we worked through some test practice problems that Profe Ramon had given me.  Did I mentioned that he asked me to teach next week? - CALCULUS (sigh).  We believe that there were a couple of incorrect answers in the problems he gave me, but I will check on that when I see him on Monday.

That was pretty much it for the night.  Noah and I chatted with the visitors before calling it a night and heading to bed around 7:30-8pm.  Many nights we've been going to sleep about 6:30pm.  I know, that seems pretty early - but it's pretty dark by that time and with all of the work we do all day, 4am rolls around pretty quickly!