Surprise! I'm Teaching Today.

This morning began another week of what will become our morning ritual for the next few weeks.  Noah and I heading to the Medium Boys House and Alina scrambling to find the toddlers.  I say that because she found this last week that if she walks to the Toddler House, sometimes they're at the house, sometimes they're 'en route' to the Comedor, and sometimes she has absolutely no clue where they are.  And sometimes when they're 'en route', they are taking a different route to the Comedor that she is taking to go to their house (there are at least 3 routes they can take).  I have a feeling that she may just meet them at the Comedor from here on out.

After breakfast, I headed to the Special Needs Yard to spend the morning with Carolina, but Rachel came over after about an hour or so to let me know that the biology tests didn't come in today and the school was wondering if I could teach math during that time.  This week is test week at the school.  Today was supposed to be the biology test, tomorrow the English test, and Wednesday the math test.  These are national tests and all students in the country take.  The students must pass these tests in order to graduate.  I guess the biology tests, didn't make it to our town of Guaimaca from the capital (Tegucigalpa) yet.  So I went to our room and grabbed the math material and headed down to the school to teach, unprepared.  We worked through the review I had given the students on Friday and I made a few extra similar problems for the students to tackle as well.

While I was in the school this morning, Noah was out with Selvin.  They found a horse that got onto the orphanage property that was from town and they also caught a few big grasshoppers.  We all met up at lunch and then Alina and I headed back to the room since she is free from noon-2pm because the toddlers are napping.  We read for those 2 hours.  She is just finishing up The DaVinci Code and really enjoying it.

When she had to head to the Toddler House at 2pm, I headed to the medium boys house.  They were distributing some shoes out to the boys.  Once again the boys' shoes are in really rough shape (see pictures from my blog 2 years ago to see what "rough shape" actually means).  There were not enough shoes to go around, so some boys will have to wait until more shoes come in.  After the shoe distribution, we headed to the Comedor for supper, but unfortunately Noah didn't show up.  I had to walk the orphanage twice trying to find him and when I finally did, let him know that he would have to be in our room for the rest of the evening and tomorrow morning because he wasn't where he was supposed to be.

Chino invited me back to the Medium Boys house this evening to watch the movie Coco with the boys.  When I went, he had an entire 'Cinemax' experience set up for the boys.  That's what they called it - Cinemax.  They set up a double bed sheet on the wall and Chino had a projector and nice speakers hooked up to his laptop.  They played the movie onto the "big screen" (bed sheet).  I had written down a list of movies for Chino to download since he has an app that downloads movies for a much more reasonable price than buying them in town.  Coco was one of the movies I asked him to get and the boys had never seen it before.  The boys really enjoyed the movie and it was nice to have an evening to enjoy it with them.  Hoping many more movie nights come out of this!