This morning at the medium boys house, Luisito asked Noah to show him some ball-handling skills. So Noah took Luisito through many of Frank Schade's drills (Head Coach at Oshkosh North for many years, now retired) from the camps he's been attending since kindergarten. About half way through the drills, Noah stubbed/cut his big toe on the cement. He was wearing his flip-flops rather than his toe-covered hiking sandals. He didn't cry and continued to show Luisito drills. When it was time for Luisito to take some boys to the health clinic, we walked with him so I could use the first aid kit that Bob purchased and brought down due to our request from Noah getting hurt earlier in our trip. Noah's toe was actually cut worse than it initially looked. We got the antiseptic wipes out and cleaned it thoroughly. Put antibiotic cream on it and thena butterfly bandaid with another bandaid over the top and then gauzed it up with tape.
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| Noah (in red shorts) showing Luisito (in blue) some basketball drills with Nathaniel, Moncho and Chino looking on |
Noah and I were in the yard all morning since there wasn't really any work for a 12 year old to do on the technology education building today. Alina came back sick from the baby house (dizzy, feverish), so I checked in on her every hour and a half or so. Gave her ibuprofen, saltines and water and told her to rest for the remainder of the day.
Bob, Noah and I had lunch together in the comedor and then it started to rain...well, not really rain but downpour! And it was nothing but a torrential downpour for over an hour! Emmanuel is in the mountains, so water was rushing everywhere. The culvert outside the comedor was about 10 inches tall and completely covered with running water. We were told that this was the residuals from Tropical Storm (or hurricane) Franklin. I have actually never seen rain like this. They ended up cancelling all afternoon classes and work for everyone.
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| Torrential downfall outside the comedor |
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| The rain coming down from the hills outside the comedor |
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| The rains and flooding passing between the back of the school and the comedor |
When the rain went down to a sprinkle, all of the kids headed for their houses quickly. We went with the medium boys and I had my movies on me, so we watched Ice Age: Collision Course and then began to watch Zootopia before it was time to head to supper. After supper, the boys headed back to their house to shower and finish watching Zootopia. Luis David asked for me to stop by and chat with him for a bit (which turned into about an hour and a half chat). At 6pm when the big boys had to go inside, I headed to the medium boys house to pick up Noah. He was sitting with a couple of boys and they asked if they could finish up watching Zootopia, so I let them. We walked back to our room at about 7pm, cleaned up Noah's toe and turned in for the night.
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