After church, we came back to the room to read for a bit before heading back to the Comedor for lunch. We were surprised by the lunch menu - elbow macaroni with spaghetti sauce and cole slaw. I'm guessing that since there are not going to be teams here for the next 4 weeks, we got some left-overs from what had been ordered for the teams. I don't know that there were ANY left-overs after lunch today! The children ate every last bite.
After lunch, I spent the afternoon tutoring Miguel for his math test tomorrow while Noah spent time with the medium boys and the big boys. After tutoring Miguel (who works in the little boys house), I headed up to the medium boys house - which is right across the road. Chino let me know that Noah was with the big boys and then said perhaps I should have a chat with Noah about being up there since the big boys age range is from 16 on up and they can tend to either use bad language or talk about stuff that perhaps a 13 year old is not ready to hear yet. Although I'm sure all the chat would be in Spanish, I guess I don't want Noah picking up bad words in Spanish just yet...so we'll have that chat.
We headed for supper around 3:30pm and then decided to stay in for the night. For those who are not very familiar with the orphanage, I'm including a map below. Emmanuel is a large orphanage and may look like a mini city to those who have not been here. I believe that David (the founder) has said that he has just over 500 acres of land. I am guessing that Emmanuel is one of the (if not THE) largest orphanages in Honduras as it typically houses around 500 children. We are staying in what people at Emmanuel call the 'Hotel'. There are 3 separate rooms that have beds, furniture and their own bathroom (you can see previous years' pics for an idea of what it looks like) and then we share a communal kitchen. I've marked the hotel in yellow on the map of Emmanuel.
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