Big Cockroaches

This morning I went about my normal routine.  My alarm is always set for 3:30am (4:30am Wisconsin time), and sometimes I get up...sometimes I snooze it.  I never get up after 4am though as I want to be showered and dressed before I get the kids up.  After showering and getting dressed, I usually sit down on my bed next to Kaylyn (who is still sleeping) and type up my blog from the day before.  This morning as I was typing up the blog, I notice a super-sized cockroach on the floor right beside the bed, making its way by one of my sandals.  I grabbed the sandal to kill it, but then it took off at lightning speed (as most uninjured cockroaches do).  By the time I got off the bed and looked under it to try to find the cockroach, it was gone.  I can honestly say with that experience, I did not need coffee this morning...I was awake.  Cockroaches don't scare me, just gross me out.  It didn't take more than about 20 minutes before I saw it again on the other side of the room by Alina's bed.  I opened the door to outside, grabbed the broom and swept it out.  I'm not really into killing cockroaches and tarantulas if I don't have to, just don't want them in our room.

We had a pretty normal day today, heading to the toddler house and medium boys house before breakfast, meeting up again in the comedor for breakfast and then heading in our separate directions once again...the girls and I to the chosa, and Noah to the horse barn with Chino.  Mid-way through the morning, I headed to the school to see if Elvia had finished Michell's school report to give to David, but she wasn't at the school so I would have to go back later (or tomorrow).  Then I headed to the farm to check on Noah, who was working on painting the metal rafters.   I noticed that one of his eyes was just beginning to get puffy and red around the eyelid, so let him know he'd have to go to the clinic in the afternoon.  Then I went back to our room to get money to put into the kids' accounts at the store for the week, $120 Lempiras (about $5 USD).  I am guessing Noah will go through this super quickly again, but he also said that he only has $57 Lempiras left of his own money, so we will see.  I also grabbed money to pay for Luis David's passport and my notebook with the dates for future visits. 

My next stop was to the office.  Fabio (a student from 2 years ago) was visiting and said HI.  I think he had to pick up some papers and he was talking about a job in the San Pedro Sula region, either working in the office or being a security guard, but he mentioned how dangerous working security is...anywhere in Honduras.  I first went to Morgan and gave her the dates that Bob will be here in December for Michell's graduation.  I am hoping Andres goes with him, and am guessing that I will not be able to go due to my new job.  Then I gave her the dates we would plan on coming down next year, and finally checked in on what time Norman would be here this Saturday to pick us up and take us to the airport in Tegucigalpa.  Three weeks has went so fast.  After taking care of those things with Morgan, I headed over to Sarah to give her the money for Luis David's passport.  In early June, she said it would cost $50USD (or $1200 Lempiras).

I then headed to the store to drop $120L into each of the kids accounts, their last allowance for food while they are here.  And finally I walked back to the chosa to be with Alina and the toddlers once again.  Kaylyn had caught up with me at the tienda and asked for the keys to go back to the room to take an ibuprofen, but she made it back to the chosa.  She handed me a warm bun and told me that Alexander was in the bakery and gave her two, one for her and one for me.  I broke mine into small pieces and gave it to the toddlers in the chosa.  We walked the toddlers to lunch and then brought them back to the living room at the toddler house for them to take naps.  While they were napping, we came back to our room to take a nap too.  The mid-day naps have been nice, even I have been taking them lately.  At 2pm we got up to head back to the toddler house.  They don't wake the toddlers up at 2pm anymore...it's more like sometime between 2:30 and 3pm.  But sometimes those kids just need to nap a bit more.  We played with them until it was time to go to supper and then walked them to the comedor and back to their house in order to get them showered and into their jammies.

When we came back to the room, Alina took Noah and Kaylyn to the school yard soccer field and hit the volleyball around with them.  I decided to take the computer and internet USB modem up to the special needs girls house and try to help Michell find a dress for graduation on Amazon.  We found 2 that she likes, but are still going to look.  Since she only liked 2 on Amazon (she really wants a green dress), we tried the Walmart website, Target website, Old Navy website, TJ Maxx website (which doesn't work in Honduras), Ross Dress for Less (which doesn't list clothes on its site).  I was trying to think of stores by our Fox River Mall that would have sites.  I told Michell I'd come back tomorrow with more ideas of other sites.  When I got back to the room, Noah mentioned Kohl's...I don't know why I never thought of that.  So we'll be searching the Kohl's website tomorrow, and perhaps Maurices and whatever else Alina can think of.  We went to bed early because we were pretty tired.  It was our last Monday here at Orphanage Emmanuel, and it was well-spent.