An Eating Competition

This morning Noah got up at 5am!  (YAY!!!)  We headed to the medium boys house on time and without problems, and then took them to the comedor for breakfast.  After breakfast, they headed straight to the special needs yard to play for the morning.  It is my last Saturday, and I had promised Monica that we would have some time together, so I let Noah know that I was headed to pick her up and to the store, and he wondered if he could bring Marlon down for some ice cream and to play Snakes (Chutes) and Ladders.  That sounded fine to me.  Unfortunately, Monica wasn't in the medium girls yard, because she had walked to the baby house, so I decided to wait for her at the store.  Noah and Marlon enjoyed their ice cream and probably played their game about 6 times.  Luis David came over with another boy and they joined in, since the game allows up to 4 players.

When Monica returned from the baby house, I went to pick her up.  We spent time together at the store (Noah walked with Marlon back to the yards) and I gave her a skirt and top that Alina and I had bought at Kohls before coming.  I also gave her a bottle of shampoo and conditioner.  The shampoo was left behind by the Miller family and the conditioner was an extra one that I had bought in Tegucigalpa just in case I ran out of the first bottle.  We chatted for a bit about her plans and also how schools are different between the United States and Honduras before we noticed it was time to get ready for lunch.

In the comedor for lunch, I noticed that Jefferson got to play with the medium boys today, so he was eating lunch with them.  Jefferson is extremely skinny (like a mini-version of Noah), and he also doesn't like to eat, so I told him I'd put him and Noah (who wasn't eating) in a competition against each other and the winner would get a Mexican sucker.  Jefferson began to eat furiously, which absolutely stunned the kids who were in charge of him.  The kids down here LOVE these suckers!  Noah could probably care less about the sucker, so I whispered to him that I'd buy him ice cream...and immediately it was an eating competition for the both of them!  They actually finished at the exact same time, which means Noah was NOT the last person eating in the comedor for lunch today!

After lunch, we headed with the medium boys to their family room to watch Zootopia.  When the movie was over, the boys were told to come outside because Chino had bought a pinata full of candy.  Only 1 side of the house got to participate in afternoon activities, because apparently someone on the other side of the house (there are 2 HUGE bedrooms to this house where 18-20 boys sleep in each room), one of the boys tried to light a fire...so they were all told that there would be no fun activities until someone confessed who did it.  Each boy got a few swings at the pinata and even Noah got to swing.  After Noah, then tia Moncha swung (without a blindfold) and then they told me to take a swing.  I really don't think that the boys thought I'd be able to swing that well, but my years of playing softball paid off!

We headed back to the family room to watch another movie (The Hobbit), but I had to come back to our room after a bit because it was extremely hot today and I was feeling light-headed.  I rested until supper time and then met the boys in the comedor for supper.  After supper, Michell came over to sit on the porch with me while Noah walked with Rudy to the clinic, which is almost next door to us.  Rudy broke something in his foot and now has a cast on for the next 4 weeks.  Noah came over our way with a gecko and made all of the girls that were sitting with us run and scream, which of course amused Noah!

Noah handling the gecko

As the evening was winding down, Suly came up by us.  I had to meet with her when she was done working in the comedor (her house is just below ours) because she had a special request from me...you see, Suly is getting married!  This week she talked to David about it and her fiance also talked with him to ask permission to marry and David gave his blessing.  Suly bought a dress, but it needs to be cleaned, so she asked me if I knew of someplace in the States that would do a good job cleaning it - since she feared that if it got done down here, it would get ruined.  I was so honored!  I told her that I could take it to the same place that cleaned my dress.  So we went down to her house for her to try it on and show it to me...it's absolutely stunning!  She came out into the living room because she was so excited that she wanted to show it to Noah - oh boy...a typical teenage boy response, not too much excitement, but he did say it looked nice on her.  She put it in a bag and I will be taking it back with me to the States to have it cleaned before sending it back her way.  She plans to marry June 26th, 2018.