Noah's Sponsored Child

We are winding down...only 2 days left here at Emmanuel and then Wednesday we will be in transit all day back to Wisconsin.  I decided to head to the Big Girls House this morning to socialize and have devotions with them, while Noah went to the Medium Boys House.  We met up in the Comedor for breakfast and then headed to school with the kids.  While Noah socialized with the medium boys at school until classes began, I went over to the high school by Suly and Misel braided my hair.  She seemed sad that tomorrow will be the last day of braiding my hair - although I told her I'd most likely stop by Wednesday morning to get my hair braided before heading to the capital (Tegucigalpa) to catch our plane.

When classes began, Noah and I headed to the orphanage office to chat with Sara.  Noah had chosen a child to sponsor last year who was picked up by his mother shortly after we began sponsoring him.  So, he had used this past month to get to know some of the medium boys better and decided on sponsoring Gibran, and 11 year old boy who has been here for the past number of years.  Gibran has an older brother (Cristopher) and and older sister Zelenes.  Cristopher and Gibran came to church with us yesterday, so you can see them in the picture I had posted yesterday.  Zelenes graduated from high school 2 years ago and decided to become a police officer.

At recess, little Alejandra found me right away and wanted to chat with me for a while.  Her friend, Suyapa, also sat next to me.  I spent about 1/2 of recess with Alejandra (who is in elementary school) and then went over to the high school since they have recess at the same time, and spent the remainder of the time with Michell.

After recess was finished, I took Noah to the 'tienda' since we still have a little bit of money on our account.  They had omelets for sale this morning, so we decided to split one.  It's the first time in the month Noah's been down here that he actually said he was extremely full.  We had a few loose ends to tie up here, including Noah figuring out how to fix a bike that had a tire pop while he was riding it, so that took up the remainder of the morning before heading to the Comedor for lunch.

Due to select students having to practice in the afternoon for the upcoming Independence Day parade in September, the majority of students didn't have school this afternoon, so we headed to the Medium Boys House to watch movies, jump on the trampoline (Noah) and play ping pong with them.  When it was time for supper, we headed that way and then I headed back to our room to do some cleaning while Noah went to the Medium Boys House until about 6pm.  Suly stopped by and we had a wonderful chat about her upcoming wedding in the States and other things. 

When Noah got back, we finished the evening by watching the movie Pixels on Netflix.  I have a couple of extra GB on the modem that won't get used up before we leave, so it was nice to have some time to watch a movie with him.