A Need for Male Volunteers

We had woke up 1/2 hour earlier, planning for Big Circle but unfortunately, there was no Big Circle today.  For those who are reading this for the first year...I will explain this next week when they have it.  So essentially we had more time this morning before we had to head out for our houses.  While Noah and I were at the Medium Boys House, I chatted a bit with Isaiah, who is a male volunteer from Ohio.  He said that up until Jordy came a week ago, he was the only one in the Male Volunteer House...and although he had only been there a month, mentioned that there hadn't been a male volunteer at Emmanuel since January.  I do remember quite a few years back that Wade had said that they are in great need of male volunteers, so if you know of anyone who would be interested - have them get a hold of me and I can hook them up with a short-term or a long-term spot down here.  The Male Volunteer house has 4 bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen (of course a bathroom too!).  It is hard manual labor all day, but well worth it!!!

We headed with the boys to breakfast and then I headed back to our room to change my clothes into something a little more appropriate for teaching.  In the mornings when we walk over to our houses, we typically wear pants because there are a lot of mosquitoes and other bugs in the wet grass that like to pop up and take bites out of your feet and legs if they are uncovered.  We also have DEET (which is typically frowned upon in the States) that we use to repel bugs.  We still get a few bites, but not nearly as many as we would get if we wore shorts and no DEET.

The school gave me both morning time slots to teach calculus (from 7:30-9am and then from 9:30-11:15am).  We reviewed a LOT since these students will not be in school Monday.  I am still a little nervous about how they will perform on the test next Wednesday.

After lunch, I headed back with Alina to our room.  She gets to have from 12-2pm open because the toddlers are napping.  She took a nap too!  I cleaned a little bit and then did some more preparations for math.  When she headed back to the toddler house, I was going to go to the Medium Boys House, but got stopped along the way by the grandecitos (boys ages 13-15).  Some of our medium boys from last year had been brought up to this house and they wanted to chat a bit.  I spent about 1/2 hour with them and then saw the other male volunteer, Jordy, up at the snack shop with Noah.  I went up to chat with them and found out that Jordy is a 6th grade math teacher...so let him know I'd spread the word to the older students in case they're looking for a math tutor this weekend and I'm not available.

After supper, I hung out with Michell in the Medium Girls yard.  This is the set of houses closest to the Comedor.  Since Michell has been assigned to cooking each meal, she needs to be located next to the Comedor...so even though she's techically a big girl, she is in the medium girls houses with the other cooks.

When 6pm came and it began to get dark, we headed back to our room to retire for the night.