Band Practice

    This morning's breakfast was arroz con leche.  I headed to the school at 7am, but over half the class had to go to band practice.  We worked through step functions and the students there claimed it was fairly easy.  They have been sharing their notes with those students who have to be absent due to band practice, so I am thankful for that.

   I headed down at 9am to watch the band's practice march for Mami and Papi and the team that was here.  The band has been working hard for their marches (Honduras' Independence Day is in September).  They will have a march in September at Emmanuel, where people from outside will come and evaluate them.  Then shortly after they will head into town to face off with other bands there.  But the big competition is in Choluteca, and Elvia was hoping that David would sign the permission papers to go as that is a ways away and would require going by bus.  

   Kaylyn headed to the toddler house and said some members from the team came to play with the toddlers for a little bit, teaching them Ring Around the Rosey.  Noah said he was busy during the morning putting grout down in-between the tiles in the power toddlers bathrooms.  He also let me know that Moncho let him drive the gator today as well.  I really think that Noah is enjoying his time down here more by the day!...but it is Jaden who probably wins the "chores of the day" award as he got to help slaughter a pig!  Our kids are suburban kids, so this is not something they have participated in.  Jaden was pretty excited about it as he was the only child of ours (aside from Andres) that has gotten to slaughter a pig...only Jaden didn't get hurt doing it like his big brother did.

   For lunch, noodles with spaghetti sauce, tortillas, and guava were served.  Noah and Kaylyn were not able to eat all of their tortillas (I think we each had 3?) so they passed them my way...but there was no way I was able to eat all of theirs AND mine, so we sent them to the big boys, who devoured them.

   Because I had been working on so much math yesterday and today, I ended up with a pretty bad headache in the afternoon.  I don't generally get headaches (in my earlier years I never got them), so I headed back to the house to grab ibuprofen and get a little rest.  There were Honduran T-Shirts being sold in the team house, so I took Jaden, Kaylyn, and Noah all up there to see if they would like one.  They each found one they really liked.  Jaden let me know he spent time this afternoon washing Alexander's parking spot for his gator.

   I did spend a couple of hours with Michell after supper.  Since she has been working in the team house, I haven't gotten to spend a lot of time with her, but will be making an effort to do it a lot more this week.