Lydia's Birthday

This morning Noah and I headed to the medium boys house while Alina headed to the baby house.  We were with them until it was time to walk to breakfast.  After breakfast they walked back to the house and watched TV until it was time to head to school (morning chores got done quickly today).  They were watching a movie about a soccer player that went to Europe to try out and play for a professional soccer team.  I'm not sure the name of the movie, and some parts were 'fast-forwarded' through (perhaps PG-13?), but the boys seemed to like it.

When we dropped the boys off at school, I saw Nikoll and Alejandra.  They ran up to me and gave me a hug.  While I was chatting with them, many of the medium boys ran out, celebrating, saying that they had no school today...so we took them to the yard to play all morning (since I had the day off from teaching calculus, too).  We headed to lunch at 11:50 and then back to the yard for the afternoon to play some more.  Even though I tried to stay in the shade all day, by the end of the day I looked like a reverse raccoon - from my sunglasses and the suntan I've been getting.

Noah and Chino in the yard this afternoon

At 4pm, we headed to supper, and from there I headed home.  Generally the boys head to their house to shower, and I don't believe that my help is needed for that since they are 10-12 years old.  From about 4:30-6pm I spent with Michell, just sitting and chatting.  She let me know that she would not be around tomorrow because she had a doctor's appointment in the capital city of Honduras, Tegucigalpa.

At 6pm, Alina, Noah and I headed to the team house.  Staff and volunteers had been invited to eat there again.  What I didn't realize was that it was Lydia's birthday.  We all sang happy birthday to her before praying and then eating.  She replied with, "This is the LAST time you celebrate my birthday!!!"...jokingly, of course.  After supper we were invited to do a devotional study on Ephesians.  The team breaks up into smaller groups of 5-7 to discuss verses from the bible.  It was a fun, educational time and a time of sharing our stories.  When the bible study was finished, we headed home to bed and fell asleep almost instantly because it was later then normal for us!