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| From Left to Right: Gibran, Noah, Cristopher, LoriAnn, Michell, Luisito (Selvin), and Luis David |
After breakfast, I walked back to the room to get ready for the day. Noah went right to the medium boys house. He had decided to bring Gibran to church. He's thinking of sponsoring Gibran, especially since the boy he chose to sponsor last year (Marlon) is no longer here. I had already asked Michell to sit with us at church while we were at breakfast (she works in the kitchen) and last night had asked permission for Luis David and Luisito to sit with us at the service and go to the 'tienda' with us afterward.
After church, we took all of these kids except for Michell to the 'tienda'. Michell had to get back to the kitchen to start working on serving lunch, but I had made arrangements to take her to the 'tienda' after lunch. At the 'tienda', all of the kiddos got 'churros' (chips) and a soda. Luis David and I chatted about his plans for after graduation and how he'd like to study out in Roatan. He doesn't yet have a plan on how to get out there, but we are going to work with Elvia to help him get out there to study to become a chef, and later he wants to study English. What better place than out in Roatan??? I have heard that it's an island dedicated to tourism, especially to those from the States. I am hoping he can find a job in the restaurant business, even if it's just mopping floors or busing tables, just to help make ends meet so he can study.
Noah took off with Gibran and Cristopher for the medium boys house after about an hour or so. Noah was bored at the 'tienda', however it seems like the 2 boys found their house WAY more boring and really didn't want to go there. But they all went anyway.
When the kids were heading to the Comedor for lunch, we decided to wrap our conversation up so Luisito and Luis David could go to lunch as well. After lunch, I headed to our room to change quickly and then went back to the Comedor to pick up Michell. We had made arrangements for me to spend time with her between 12 and 2pm. We headed to the 'tienda' for an hour and chatted, then headed to the hotel so I could show her a couple of pictures of our family that were on the computer, and finally ended up at the big girls house so she could spend a little time with Coco before taking her back to the Comedor to start working on supper preparations.
After dropping her off at the Comedor, I headed across the road to pick up Julissa to take her to the store to chat. We chatted about a lot of things. She is hoping to learn enough English to become a translator some day. She said that she got a 99% in her technology class and thought she was one of the most intelligent students in the class (behind Oscar, who she reported was the most intelligent). It was fun chatting with Julissa about past years and her dreams. Time went by really quickly and we saw people heading to supper, so I had to drop her off at the Comedor. I ate supper with Noah and he went back with the medium boys to play on the trampoline and watch the Lego movie in Spanish. I headed to Michell's house to chat with her some more before deciding to head back to our house for the evening.
I guess the excitement for our neighbors for the evening was when the electricity went out (we were already in our room), a tarantula came out onto our shared porch. It was big and black, and Lourdes told them it was poisonous. When Chris killed it, it was evident that the tarantula had babies (EEEWWW). They told Noah that they had thought we were already sleeping, so they didn't call for him to come and check it out. I'm glad that they didn't call us out to see it!
If I didn't mention it yet this year, the power goes out frequently here. Sometimes it's out for a few minutes, sometimes it's out for a few days...although that hasn't happened in a few years. It's just a way of life and we have to get used to it.
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