Calling Home

This morning we headed to circle and then to breakfast with the medium boys.  They got to be in the yard today because there were no classes for them.  Their teachers had a reunion/inservice.  I noticed that the tia (care-taker) was taking some of the medium boys over to the soccer field by the church, so Noah and I headed over with them.  They spent about 20 minutes sweeping the water puddles off of the cement field so that it would be more safe to play on.  As they were sweeping, Noah found & held his 3rd gecko.  I actually had my camera with me this time (the 2 prior time I didn't), so I got his picture.

Noah and the gecko

The gecko

When it was 10am, I had to go to the school and work with two of the three students who did not pass the math test on Tuesday.  I went through 3 types of problems with them and then they asked me to give them some homework.  I gave them 3 practice problems of each type (so 9 problems total) and let them know that I'd check their answers tomorrow before they retook the test, to see if they were on the right track.

I headed with Noah to lunch and then we went to the yard again with the boys.  Later in the afternoon I went to the tienda with Alina and bought her some fried yucca chips.  I found Noah playing soccer with the small girls when I walked back.  We headed to supper with the boys and then met up with Luis David at the tienda so we could call home.  Both Bob and Andres were at home, so they each got on a line in case Andres needed to translate (since my phone down here doesn't have a speaker option).  I was hoping to Skype, but it didn't work out so well.  Bob said perhaps there wasn't enough bandwidth to do it...although I don't understand that technical jargon.

When Luis David was done chatting, we brought him back to his house and went up to our house to grab Michell so that she could also chat with Bob.  Towards the end of the phone call, when she knew that the call was winding down, she got very teary eyed and could barely talk.  I know that she felt as if her time with us was winding down and we had less than 36 hours to be together.

When Michell had to go into her house, we went in for the night as well.  Tomorrow (our last day here) will come soon enough and we want to enjoy and celebrate it all we can!