This morning when I headed to the kitchen, I noticed that the two rooms alongside of us (with 11 visitors from Tennessee) had left their bedroom doors open for the night (like WIDE open, not simply unlocked), as well as the kitchen door. This is completely not safe...EVERYONE knows here to lock their doors each evening. When I walked into the kitchen, garbage was everywhere on the floor. Dogs had gotten into the kitchen and went through the garbage, as well as any food that was sitting out on the table. We are fairly familiar with our surroundings down here, so all of the food we had, thankfully, was in the refrigerator or our room. We didn't have anything sitting out on cupboards or the table, due to insects, etc. I felt bad for our visitors though as they ended up missing a bunch of food (including delicious banana bread) that they had just purchased yesterday, due to leaving that kitchen door open. When I chatted with them later, I let them know that the doors should be closed AND locked during the night.
We arrived at the medium boys house a little late because one of our children was a little slow this morning. They had already started circle/devotions. When we came back to our room, Noah had to make his bed, finish his breakfast, take his vitamins, etc.
We began reading with the 5th graders today, 1-on-1. There are 4 kids that I will have to work with over the next few weeks, but I know them all so it should work out okay. Alina and Noah decided to go out for recess with the kids, so they played quite a bit since it was a double recess today. During recess the high school was selling meals for $20 Lempiras each (about $1 US dollar). It consisted of a baleada (tortilla with beans and eggs) and an orange drink in a bag. The typical way to drink these is to rip off a bottom corner of the bag with your teeth and suck the beverage through the bag. This was a new experience for Noah. After recess, one of Noah's friends had a huge grasshopper, so the boys played with that for quite a bit.
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| Noah finishing his baleada and showing us what his beverage looks like |
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| Noah drinking his orange beverage |
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| Gerson and Noah with the grasshopper |
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| Noah held the grasshopper too! |
During one of the reading sessions, Profe Ramon (high school math teacher) came over to me to ask if I would be willing to teach next week's lessons - integrating in calculus. The students have this as a last topic before their national exams. When I looked at what the students would need to do, I cringed a little bit. First - it's been a long time since I've done calculus, Second - there's no way that we would get through what they need to know in just 2 class periods. Ramon said that he couldn't remember how to do any of that, so he really needed my help. I will be spending my weekend trying to figure out the best 'crash course' to give them. Thankfully one of the visitors who lives next to us is a math major and just finished Calculus 2 in college, which focuses mostly on integrations.
In the afternoon, we headed to the big girls yard to get started on measuring/sizing them. It will take us a while to get through the big girls since there are around 80 or so girls (most houses so far only had about 1/2 of that). Of course there were many girls who were in school, so we will have to go back. While at the big girls yard, Noah got to play with a gecko. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on me for that, so I didn't get any pictures.
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| One of Doris and Alina's 40-50 selfies |
For supper, I cooked up some pasta with green beans and sauce. We had a cinnamon roll for dessert. Alina and Noah played a few games of checkers before we turned in for the night.
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