La Tienda

   Last night a team came in from Clover, South Carolina.  The pastor of the group gave the sermon this morning and Alexander tried to translate what he was saying to Spanish.  I am going to guess the pastor didn't know Spanish and as such, didn't know when what he had said was fully translated, so he got quite ahead of Alexander to the point where it became more and more difficult to translate.  Dulce, who was also a child here who is now grown, married and with children of her own happened to be at Emmanuel today.  I believe she went on to the university to become as lawyer as well.  She took over for Alexander in translation of the sermon.

   After church, Jaden, Kaylyn and I headed back to our room to clean.  I may have mentioned last Sunday that this day is our only day off, so is the day we can really do a deep cleaning.  Since Kaylyn felt better this Sunday, we got everything off of the floor in our room and swept and mopped the entire room (bathroom included).  We didn't stop there, but moved on to the kitchen that we share with the family in Hotel Room #2 (Karen and her 2 daughters, Dara and Nachita).  Then we moved on to the front porch and swept and mopped all but the porch in front of Room #3 because there is a bee hive and it was hot outside, so the bees were pretty active there.

   After lunch, we asked permission to take Britani, Jeremias and Alejandra to the Tienda (store).  At first it was just Britani and Jeremias because Alejandra had to clean the Comedor from lunch.  When 1:30 came around and Alejandra still wasn't with us, Jeremias suggested we go to the school playground to look for her.  Sure enough, she was there.  Jeremias decided to stay at the playground because Karen (who lives next to us and is in charge of the grandecitas house where Alejandra lives) is actually his sister, which means Dara and Nachita are his nieces.  So then the rest of the afternoon it was just Britani, Alejandra and me.

Jaden, Jeremias, Kaylyn and Britani

   At 1:30, Kaylyn and Jaden went on the team's tour of the orphanage, led by Alexander.  On this tour they show you all of the buildings and give you a bit of the history of the orphanage.  Neither of them have done a tour, so I think that now everyone in my immediate family has participated in a tour at some point.  Kaylyn and Jaden have now done it with Alexander leading the tour, Alina and Noah have done it (I am not sure who led that tour), and Andres and Bob have done it with Wade leading the tour.  When I did the tour at the beginning of coming here (in 2008), it was Papi (David) who led the tour.

   In the evening after supper, I used that time to update the blog, get Kaylyn and Jaden registered for school with the Neenah Joint School District for fall, and then prepared tomorrow's lesson on rational functions for the 10th grade.