Dinner at the Team House

   This morning's breakfast was that smooth "cereal" (which I found out was a combination of milk, flour and sugar) along with cookies.  Whereas Noah doesn't care for the arroz con leche, I would have to say that this is my least favorite cereal...but I have committed to having an authentic experience while here, so as with all of the meals that have been served while I was here this year, I will eat them in their entirety.

   Kaylyn was sick all day today with both a tummy ache and a head ache.  We would find out later upon our return to the States that her illness and the discoloration in her knuckles and behind her knees was that she had gotten Dengue Fever while here.  Dengue only exists between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, and begins with a mosquito bite.  Kaylyn is the first in our family to get dengue in the 14 years I have been coming down here, but will most likely not be the last as our trips down here will continue as long as I am able to go, God willing.  I am so thankful that she only had mild symptoms because it could have been so much worse.

   I will be in a mad rush this week to get the rest of the notes for the calculus book done, both going through examples in the book and filling in gaps between steps, as well as completing every homework problem with appropriate steps, so that they are available for Profe Jorge and his students.  Today's calculus topic was derivatives using the quotient rule as well as the chain rule.  The students are telling me that I am making these lessons easy for them with multiple examples throughout.

   Noah and Jaden were at the horse barn this morning, reorganizing hay stacks inside the semi container.  Noah let me know at lunch that he got to drive a gator in order to bring hay into the corrals.  I let Chino know that Noah neither had a driver's license or his temps, but I suppose it's good practice for him.  I can remember when my dad let me drive our super old and beat up suburban out in the fields to get practice.  Add that to the riding lawnmowers that we constantly used, and that's a mix for a little more experience before I got my driver's license.  

   Lunch today was rice, beans, tomatoes, queso fresco, and tortillas.  These types of lunches are my favorites since they're a variety of everything.  After lunch, Kaylyn and I walked back with the toddlers to put them down for a nap.  

   I had to meet up with Michell at 1:00 because she had requested that the two of us meet with David (the founder of the orphanage).  Michell must have rehearsed what she was going to say through the night and I won't forget the passion and tears in her eyes as she told David that she wanted to come to the States with me to study.  There was WAY more to the conversation than that, but if you really would like me to share, we can have that conversation in a way that's not so public.  But for the meantime, we are hoping and praying (of course with David's blessing) that all goes smoothly and she is able to come up to the States to study in January.  Once we had David's blessing, we also needed to head to the office in order to talk to Eva about the logistics of the application and what would have to be done State-side and what would need to get done in Honduras for this goal to become a reality.

   During the afternoon, Kaylyn finished up a book by Karen Kingsbury.  I have read some of her books, actually entire series of her books, and really enjoy how she writes.  Noah worked with Milton to blow leaves and debris off the road with the Leaf Blower and Jaden broke rocks/concrete to use as filler for the bridge that's being built.

   This evening we were invited to the team dinner at 6pm.  They served spaghetti and Noah ended up going back for seconds...well I am not sure you can call it that, because his "seconds" consisted of the entire lunch tray being covered in quite a mound of spaghetti!  We enjoyed good conversation with Michell, Mirna, Oscar, Moncho and others before retreating to our rooms for the evening.