This morning we slept in. By sleeping in, I mean I slept until almost 9am and I let Alina and Noah sleep until just about 10am...this is all on Honduran time, which would be an hour later on Wisconsin time (10am and 11am). This was some much needed sleep since I hadn't slept since around 5am on Sunday morning. When we all were up and moving about, we went down to see Morgan to find out what kind of help was needed at Orphanage Emmanuel this year. Alina's help was needed a the toddler house and I would be spending the next week working with teaching math/calculus again this year.
Generally the first day that a volunteer is here (which would be today), you are allowed to have free time to explore the orphanage and get your bearings. Although we knew where everything is, it was nice to have some free time to go and say "hi" to all of the kids that we've made connections with over the years. Alina wanted to walk to the baby house first, and on the way we found Michell and Suly cleaning one of the houses, We chatted with them a bit before continuing to the baby house.
The Miller family (who I've mentioned in previous years) is also here this year and the girls are working in the baby house this year. We chatted with them and Glenda for a while and then set about to accomplish a few things for the day that we wouldn't be able to do tomorrow. I chatted with Profe Ramon about where they are in their math text and when the exam is. It turns out the exam is next week Wednesday, and I will only have about 3 days of teaching to do to get them ready. This seems much earlier than last year, because I'm fairly sure that I had around 2.5 weeks to get the students ready. He assured me that he had followed my notes from last year and that they were on track to finish the book.
We stopped by the tienda for some lunch and visited with Lourdes and Invisible since we had missed lunch, and then Alina and I headed to where the Miller's were staying (a duplex out on the farm) to get the phone codes, so that we can get some really good discounts to call home. I had forgotten to pack the codes from home, and these codes can get you rates as cheap as about 5 cents per minute when calling to the States! It's quite a bit more if you don't use the codes.
We headed to the Comedor (big dining hall) to eat supper with the kids, and supper consisted of elbow noodles, beans and eggs. Then the medium boys headed to the special needs yard out front of the church to play soccer after supper. Noah joined in a game of soccer with them while Alina went to church with Sofia for choir practice. Alina is not going to sing in the choir, she was just sitting and listening to Sofia practice. We ended the night with a call home to let Bob know that we were all doing well.
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