We headed to our houses and then to breakfast. Noah is eating more at the comedor now because he is out of money...both his and the allowance I gave him for the week. Alina and Kaylyn walked the toddlers back to their house after breakfast while I headed to my room to get ready to teach math class at 7:30am. I packed up the books and notebook, my glasses and calculator, and pens and pencils. We are wrapping up parabolas today and tomorrow and then I will turn the class back over to Profe Ramon who will get into teaching the students how to graph logarithms, exponentials, rationals, absolute values, etc. in the next few weeks.
When I finished teaching, I took the materials back to my room for safe-keeping before heading to the toddler house. I also got our backpacks emptied out and ready to head into town later. Our neighbors (Angela and Erin) were there, so I chatted with them briefly before heading to the toddler chosa. Erin was here last summer for 2 months as a volunteer working with the small boys. Angela, her mom, had never been here before so Erin wanted to show her around. They will be here until Sunday (and Erin goes to back for her last semester of college on Monday), so we will be neighbors for the duration of our stay down here.
I headed to the chosa and saw that Alina's friend, Mirian, was wearing Alina's shirt. Alina had taken a bag full of her clothes that she brought down here to the toddler house to give away to the teens in that house. She let Mirian have first pick of the clothes because they have grown close over the past few years. When it was time to go to the comedor, we took the toddlers down there and at a bit before heading back to our room to get ready to go to town.
We went into town with the Miller family, Angela and Erin, and the male volunteer that's here. We stopped at both grocery stores for more coffee and solid dish soap (I SO prefer this to liquid dish soap), and then headed to the Claro store to get just a little bit more time/GB on my internet stick. On our way back to Orphanage Emmanuel, we stopped at the bakery which sells chocolate covered frozen bananas so that the kids could purchase one, just one last time. Noah had just enough money left in his account at the store at Emmanuel to ask for the money in cash to get a banana. They are $7 Lempiras (about 30 cents). Not bad at all for how much the kids enjoy them!
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| Kaylyn with a frozen chocolate covered banana (with sprinkles) |
Our last stop was to Glenda's to say our goodbyes. We bought another watermelon and I am hoping that the girls share it with those who are in charge of the special needs house, or those in charge of the toddler house. We will see.
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| Left to Right: Alina, me, Kaylyn, Glenda, Noah |
When we got back to our room, we unpacked everything before heading to the comedor for supper. Tonight was church and Alexander was preaching about Moses and being brave. We had been told earlier in the week that there would be communion tonight. I meant to talk to Kaylyn all week about it, but every time I would have had the chance, it slipped my mind. The style of communion at Emmanuel is just like Calvary, with everyone taking communion as one congregation. When they called us up for communion, I noticed (after that fact) that Kaylyn went with us. After she had taken communion, she smiled at me and said it would be a most memorable experience!
Before heading to bed, we chatted a bit with the girls in charge of the small girls house, next door...and then chatted a bit with our neighbors. I think all of the kids were sleeping by 7:30pm due to having went into town. It was not as hot today since there were clouds all day and a breeze.
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