Graduation Fundraiser - Baleadas

This morning we headed out as usual, the girls and I to the toddler house and Noah to the grandecitos house.  We met up in the comedor for breakfast.  After breakfast Alina and Kaylyn walked the toddlers back to the toddler house and Noah headed with Chino to the horse barn.  I stopped in by Michell where the girls were making tortillas for the fundraiser later in the day before going back to our room to prep for math class.

Today I would be teaching Bachillerato 1 (the equivalent of 10th grade).  The schedule says class begins at 7:30, but we always have to wait a bit for students entering a little late.  I got through 1 review problem (that Profe Ramon had asked me to do).  I had 2 problems, but had to assign the 2nd one as homework since we only had about 10 minutes left to get into the lesson.  I gave them an introduction to quadratics, but we would have to finish tomorrow.

After that class, I headed back to our room to prep for tomorrow's lesson Bachillerato 2.  The lesson was going to be difficult...introducing limits.  When 9:30am rolled around, I headed back to the school because the Bachillerato 2 class was selling baleadas as a fundraiser for their graduation.  I bought 4 plates of baleadas.  A baleada is a hand-made tortilla with beans, eggs and a cream inside.  A plate had 2 baleadas and then we got a charamusca (fruit drink in a bag).  Four of these cost me $100 Honduran Lempiras (about $4 USD).  I chose 4 different colors of charamuscas and then went to the horse barn first for Noah to pick out his.  He was pretty excited to get to eat a mid-morning snack on my expense!

Noah excited to get the baleada

Kaylyn with Michell (who actually gave her a taste of a baleada this morning)

My baleada and charamusca (before I gave the charamusca to Noah)

Then I went to the chosa at the toddler house to deliver the girls plates.  They were also excited to get the plates and charamuscas.  There was 1 charamusca left over for me, but I didn't necessarily need it (I'll stick to water to stay hydrated), so I ran it back to Noah, who again was very excited to get a 2nd one.  After all of that running, I went back to my room for more "math prep" until it was time to go to the comedor for lunch.

On Wednesdays, volunteers can go into town shopping (groceries, etc), so I took Noah and Kaylyn (Alina preferred to stay back) to town.  On our way to the orphanage gate, we saw the semi container coming in.  Noah was hoping they'd still be unloading by the time we got back, but I told him there was only a slim chance of that.  They work hard to get that semi unloaded quickly.  This would be the 1st year he didn't get to help unload.  We got our groceries and stopped for a chocolate covered frozen banana for Kaylyn.  She really liked it!

When we got back, the semi was leaving.  There are boys who stand on the top of the semi because some wires that cross the roads are so low that they have to be lifted over the semi.  When we got back to the room, we put the groceries away and then Alina and Kaylyn headed to the toddler house while Noah and I rearranged our room.  The bunk bed was in front of the window which gave little space to open and close the window in the morning...plus they were in FRONT of the only window we have in the room.  Now the room looks a lot more efficient and with the bunk beds in a different spot, we can get to the window a lot easier to open each morning and close each evening.  We also re-folded most of the blankets and towels that were in the armoire since they were scrambled around quite a bit.  We were so busy doing that, that Kaylyn came in and asked where we were for supper.  We had completely forgotten that since it was a Wednesday (a church night), supper got served earlier!

We all dressed for church and then headed down where the Ohio team put on a great skit.  After church, the 3 kiddos showered and then we headed to bed.