God is Good - El Arco Iris

This morning Noah and I headed to the medium boys house without Alina.  She said her throat was hurting and she was burning up with a fever.  When I used Noah's flashlight to check her throat, I saw a lot of white on her tonsils (which my aunt Linda had told me years ago was a good indicator of strep throat).  We did circle with the boys and then walked with them to breakfast and stayed until breakfast was over.  I spoke with LaShawn (one of the clinic nurses) about Alina's symptoms and she said to bring her over at 8am, when the clinic would be open for the girls.  I headed back to the house and gave Alina some ibuprofen at 7am and worked a little bit on the calculus lesson I would be teaching today.  As I was working on the lessons, Rachel (the oldest daughter from the family staying next to us) came home from the baby house with similar symptoms, but not yet a fever.  I decided to take both girls to the clinic.  Alina's temperature was 101.8 degrees, and it was confirmed that she has strep throat, so she was put on a 5-day antibiotic.  LaShawn told her that she would have to rest for 48 hours, drink lots of fluid and let the antibiotics kick in...no working.  Rachel also has strep, but didn't have the fever yet.

I dropped off Alina back at our room and made sure she took the 1st two pills and some food to go along with it before gathering up the calculus materials and heading to the high school.  The high school girls were just lining up to head in to class (the boys were already in the classroom) when I arrived.  Profe Ramon let me know that I'd have the class to myself today since another teacher was absent, so he'd have to cover her class.  I finished up indefinite integrals and then wrapped up the hour and a half lesson with the definite integrals.  I have now officially covered all of the topics that are on the exam.  Profe Ramon also wants me to take some time out of each day this week to cover the remaining topics in the book, but mostly wants me to work on reviewing for the exam with the students and then catching the boys up to speed since they missed all of last week due to planting trees up in the mountains.

When class was done, I chatted with Profe Ramon during recess and he asked if I could work through the 2 exams that would be given next Monday so that he could have someone 'double-check' his answer key.  This is something that we do in our math department as well...having a second eye checking for a possible error (or errors) we've made in making an answer key for a test definitely helps.  I'm not sure why an answer key was not provided with these tests which are required to be taken by the Honduran government educational branch.  This was actually a blessing to me, not only because I'm nerdy and enjoy working through math problems, but because I could be back in my room monitoring Alina, especially since LaShawn said that if her temperature went much above 102, we'd need to consider an injection to get it down due to the hot climates down here not helping keep her body cool.  I spent most of the afternoon working through the 2 tests, but was able to get them finished before school ended at 3pm, and returned them to Profe Ramon.  He was very thankful for my help in working through them.  We did discover some incorrect answers on the test itself, again made by the country of Honduras, not Profe Ramon.

Noah and I headed to the medium boys house after school to listen to 'ensenanza' and then walk with the boys to supper.  Noah now sits by Rudy and the bigger boys in the house.  He says it helps him to eat a little faster because they talk less.  I bought Alina some Gatorades from the 'tienda' at the recommendation of LaShawn and made sure she drank an entire one, since she hadn't been drinking much more than 1/2 of a glass of water all day.  She was sleeping, but we wanted to be sure to get the fluids down as well.

When Noah came back to the house, he was carrying 4 movies that I had asked Selvin to pick up in town for me for the medium boys...I can't wait to watch them with the boys this weekend (the boys who are in charge of the house who know about them are excited too)!  We'll keep you posted on that when we watch them.

Noah noticed that the small boys were down at the 'cancha' playing soccer and asked if he could go.  I took a book down to read while he was playing.  When I finished a chapter I looked up and saw the beginnings of a rainbow.  Of course it was one of those rare instances that I had forgotten to bring my camera, so since I also saw some gray clouds coming (perhaps rain, might destroy my book), I figured I'd run the book back to my room and grab the camera and hopefully the rainbow would still be there.  When I got back the entire rainbow had formed above the church (rather than just the fragment I had seen earlier).  Here's the photo I got:

What a WAY to end the night!  God is Good!!!