We headed through our normal routine. Bob's been working with Mike on this technology education building and Alina headed back to the baby house. They will head home on Saturday for Alina to try out for volleyball at Oshkosh North on Monday. Noah and I were with the medium boys as usual, and after heading with them to breakfast and dropping the ones in school off at school, Moncha (who's in charge of the special needs yard during the day) decided to take the children into the gymnasium for the day. The gymnasium got a new set of doors put on it. The old wooden double-doors with the padlock were replaced by black iron-bar double doors. They look really good!
I was supposed to head to the high school area for recess to give Luis David his calculator and show him how to use it, but I ended up getting recruited to play soccer in the gymnasium with the children there. I have never played soccer before, and having been a 3-sport athlete where I am REQUIRED to physically touch the ball with my hands, this made for a very difficult time for me!
After lunch, I headed back to the room to rest for a bit because I would be tutoring 2 students this evening in 2 different houses in 2 different math classes, which would make for a lot of running around. I headed to the small boys house first at 4:30pm to work with Miguel. He is in our equivalent of 10th grade and did not pass the math test the first time around. They are allowed 1 retake to make up their points. I worked with him for just a bit over an hour on finding intercepts, vertices of parabolas, and also locating the focus and directrix of a parabola. I showed him an example of each, then we worked through an example, and then I gave him an example to do alone. He seemed to be catching on.
About quarter to 6pm, I headed to the toddler house (it was a hike) to work with Brenda on her math for her retake tomorrow. Brenda is the only student in the 11th grade who did not pass the course, so she will be doing a retake tomorrow as well. The 11th grade is the last grade before graduation here in Honduras (unlike our 12th grade). I worked with her on derivatives, integrals, and summation notation and calculation. She had all of the notes that I have given in class, and hopefully with what we went through, she'll be okay.
When I got back to our room, I found Alina writing her 'goodbye' letters to the children she had made connections with. The children tend to write tons of letters down here, and color quite a few drawings as well and give them to the volunteers and teams as they spend time with them. So Alina was reciprocating. She asked if I could hand out 2 letters to 2 boys that she would probably not see tomorrow since she spends her entire days at the baby house.
I began reading Bringing Up Boys by Dr. Dobson a few days ago. Each night I read a chapter before heading to bed. I got this book back when Andres was about 9 or 10 and read it back then, but figured with Noah and Jaden - I just may need a refresher! Bob, Alina and Noah all fell asleep before I finished my chapter, but then it was lights out (just as the hard rains came down) and I fell asleep with the pitter patter of the rain on the roof.
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