Orphanage Emmanuel in Guaimaca, Honduras: The Container has Arrived!

Today is Friday which means that in stead of heading to the medium boys house, all of the children will come out in front of our rooms, the big girls house and the health clinic to have 'big circle'. The small boys and the grandecitos had to recite their bible verses today. There was a light mist through all of this, but when the boys finished reciting their verses, the downpour came! So 'big circle' was cut early and everyone headed to breakfast. Noah decided to trade his arroz con leche for what the children were eating (trigo). When he traded, Santos grabbed his arroz con leche and quickly began to eat it. Arroz con leche is a real treat for breakfast for the kids...but every day we've been here so far, they get trigo.

Big Circle

Noah trying the Trigo

After breakfast we headed back to the room so that I could gather up my items for calculus class. Today the students were taking a test, and Profe Ramon asked me to administer the test while he administered a math test to another class. There were 2 errors on the test, so I had to prepare what I was going to write on the board to correct those errors and also a few formulas for the students to have. After the calculus test, a few students came up to me and said, "Thank you" for teaching them the material because they didn't believe they would pass the test without my help. When I gave the tests to Profe Ramon, he asked if I could correct them as well. This was the part that was difficult for me because every teacher has their own way of correcting things, especially when it comes to math. It was also difficult because I didn't really agree with the point system that the government put on each question. Thankfully, I was able to get all 17 corrected by lunch and returned them to Profe Ramon. It looks like a few students are going to have to redo the test (I think they are allowed only 1 retake). I headed to lunch, ate, then headed back to the house to rest for a bit because that was just too much calculus for me this week and my brain really needed a break.

Before supper, I headed to the tienda to chat with Lourdes and get a gatorade, then I headed to the medium boys house for devotions. Today, Chino (one of the teens in charge of the house) had the medium boys share about how God had worked in their life this week. After ensenanza (devotions), we headed to supper and then I ran back to our house to grab the movies while the medium boys showered. The boys decided they wanted to watch Power Rangers, however they didn't get to watch the entire movie due to time. We watch their movies in the living room, but the boys have to be in their bedrooms by 6pm. We'll continue the movie later.

When it was time to go, I asked Luisito if the container had arrived, and he said it had...so Noah and I rushed down to the warehouse and they had already had 1/2 of the container emptied. The container is a semi-trailer that is sent from either Alabama or Tennessee (this one was from Tennessee) loaded with food, clothing, building materials, gifts from sponsors and others, etc. Alina was hard at work helping to empty the container. After his experience last year and knowing just what to do, Noah jumped right in too! Wade told us that with all of the help, the container was emptied in record time - 50 minutes! This is good, since we were told that the driver is paid by the hour from when he picks up the container at the port in La Ceiba. There are 2-3 boys that ride on the top of the semi-trailer while it leaves the orphanage because the power lines at the entrance are too low for the semi...so the boys have to lift the power lines up and walk the length of the trailer before letting them go so that the semi can pass under them. Noah wanted to help out with this, and he was invited to help, but I said that since his father wasn't here to 'okay' it, I wasn't about the let him. Wade and David thanked all of the staff and volunteers for helping unload the container and then we headed back to our room to turn in for the night.