I had given the students homework for today (finding 4 vertices to cuadratic functions), and let the students know that if they got all 4 of the answers correct, I would give them a paleta, which is a chili-covered mango sucker that I buy in the Mexican grocery store back home before I come. We bring LOTS of bags of these down because you cannot get them down here. Only 5 of the 20 students had all 4 answers correct. I gave the students the correct answers and let them know that those who didn't get a correct answer would need to go through it and make corrections in order to be sure they knew how to solve for a vertex. We then went through today's lesson: solving for x- and y- intercepts of quadratic functions (along with talking about discriminants). And once again they got homework.
When class was done, I decided to go back to our room for about an hour or so in order to prep for tomorrow - since I would be teaching over 3 class periods. Alina came in around 9am to say that Kaylyn had been sleeping the entire time in the chosa without moving and the other girls said she had a fever. So I went with Alina up to the chosa, stopping at the tienda along the way to buy an apple juice for Kaylyn to drink. When we got to the chosa and began walking up the steps, I noticed 2 legs that were on the steps that belonged to a tarantula...they were only the legs, but when I looked on the ground, I saw the rest of the tarantula (dead, of course). Ants were already all over it trying to figure out how to carry it away. I picked up Kaylyn and showed her on the way out. She had a little reaction - probably would have been bigger if she hadn't been so sick. This is the 1st tarantula she's seen down here.
When I dropped Kaylyn off at our room, I gave her a pear-flavored Enjoy drink. These are a bit thicker (more like a nectar) and have quite a bit of Vitamin C in them. I told her that I had to go to the school to pick up the plates of food that I had ordered for their fundraiser, deliver them to Alina, Noah and Luis David, and by the time I got back, I expected that the drink was gone. I went to the school and Noah was there (one less delivery for me), so I gave him his plate and 2 charamuscas, then I began walking to the comedor to give Luis David his plate. Yensi (who I call Senorita Santa Barbara) stopped me to ask where I was going. I explained and let her know I had an extra plate that belonged to Kaylyn if she wanted it (I knew Kaylyn wouldn't eat it, being sick). She was happy to take it off my hands.
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| The graduation fundraiser for this week. 1 Plate = $30 Lempiras ($1.25USD) |
Luis David got his plate and charamusca, and Mary Beth told me she had gotten a plate for him too. Luis David said he'd end up fat, and I reminded him of the sign my mother-in-law had in her kitchen that said, "Never trust a skinny chef". I then went to the chosa at the toddler house to drop off Alina's plate and charamusca.
I went back by Kaylyn for the remainder of the morning since this is her 1st summer here and she is sick. I used this time to prep some more for classes tomorrow. Before I headed to lunch, I gave Kaylyn the apple juice and told her I needed her to drink it before we got back from lunch. We had to eat lunch quickly in the comedor because, being Wednesday, it's our only day to go into town for groceries.
When we got back from the comedor, Kaylyn had the apple juice drank. Alina, Noah and I got ready to go into town (Kaylyn would hang back and sleep). Noah gave almost ALL of the Mexican suckers he had brought with him to the children throughout town. We got quite a bit of coffee to take back to the States with us, and saw Glenda on the way back to Orphanage Emmanuel. I am hoping that everyone is healthy next week to get a picture of all of us.
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| Alina, Glenda, and Noah |
As we walked into Emmanuel on the way to the office, Alina and I saw another dead tarantula. Must be all the rain that hit us yesterday and today...washing them out from their holes.
We had to quickly put groceries away in order to get ready for supper and then head to church. After church, Alina and I went to the special needs girls house to watch Aquaman (which I had bought for Michell earlier in the week). We got through about the first 30 minutes and a huge rain storm came through. It pounded on the metal roof and knocked the power out. We decided to chat with the girls in the dark until about 7:30, but Alina got pretty tired and I wanted to check in on Kaylyn. It was a dark walk back to our room. The girls tried to help illuminate the way by holding up their flashlights for us from their doorway to make a path for us as far as the flashlights would reach, which we really appreciated.
We made it back to the room. Noah had already gotten back from the medium boys house. Alina took a shower and noticed a rash forming on her face. I'm really hoping that this isn't year 3 of her coming back to the States with impetigo, but I'm going to have her go see LaShawn tomorrow just in case...and if Kaylyn's still not 100%, Kaylyn will be going with her.
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