The Day of the Tarantulas

This morning I left our room and locked up, but Noah was trailing behind because he still had to put on his shoes.  He caught up with me at the medium boys house for circle and was VERY excited!  He took a different route to the house than I did and saw, in his terms, a "large, live tarantula"!  He was so excited that he wanted to show it to me after circle was done, while we were on our way with the boys to breakfast.  I knew that the tarantula would be long gone, but he insisted it was moving very slowly (typical) and it would still be there...it wasn't there.  But I was happy that he got to see one before we left, because I have seen many throughout the years (check out previous years blogs for more on that).

After breakfast we headed to the yard with the medium boys.  There was no school today for the elementary levels, so the boys were out in the yard all morning, headed to lunch and then all afternoon.  It was fairly cool and quite overcast in the morning, but the afternoon was 100% sun, so I had to change from my jeans to capris.  While in the yard, a medium boy thought he could startle me by throwing a red tarantula on the ground in front of me, saying it was the "most dangerous" tarantula in Honduras!  I think he was a little disappointed when I didn't jump...I knew there was no way he'd ever throw a live tarantula at me.  And it was pretty small compared to the black ones I've seen around here.  The rains are bringing the tarantulas out more and more now.

After supper I had a date with Lucy, Karly and Ruth Maria to study with them for their big national math exam tomorrow.  We worked on the calculus for an hour and a half before they had to go back into their houses for the night.  I wished them the best on the test tomorrow.

When I got back to our room for the evening, Noah pointed out another tarantula that must've fallen from our roof top.  It was upside-down and dead on the ground right in front of our porch.  Another small one...wondering when the big ones will come out???