This morning I made a fresh pot of coffee. Prior to this morning, it was taking 3-4 days for me to go through a pot of coffee, but I am guessing with having gone into town and buying cream and sugar (for Kaylyn) that it might go a little bit faster now. I also asked Karen if she liked coffee and since she said she did, let her know that she could help herself to the coffee any time she wanted.
I headed to breakfast with Jaden, although I didn't eat there (just drank my coffee with vanilla bean flavored protein powder mix). Then we came back and I spent the rest of the time in our kitchen wrapping up the lessons I would teach today on graphing rational functions. This is a topic I haven't taught in way more years that I can remember, so I needed to make sure I was detailed enough for the students. I created a 5 step process for them to get to the graph of the function. It seems that when students have the processes laid out for them down here, they do so much better with the math. When I am not here, it is taught SO much differently. I had to teach today from 8:20-9:40am.
I also noticed on my way out of the school that there was a laminated posting outside the teacher's lounge about which uniforms the TEACHERS were supposed to wear each day, so it is not just the students that have to wear uniforms. I have always noticed through the years that the teachers dressed in the same colors, and just wasn't sure if they coordinated what they were doing through the years or if it was told to them. Today I received my answer with seeing this notice:
After teaching, I came back to the room to drop my things down and then headed to the Chosa where the toddlers were. I found out that Zoey and Micah were out sick and Kaylyn wasn't there either because she was chosen to take the toddlers to the clinic with April. When she came back with Sara, she said that Sara had a 102-degree fever and needed to rest have have cool damp clothes placed on her head and neck. When April came back with 4 toddlers, she let me know that they have had some massive diarrhea overnight and just needed to be monitored a little more closely, especially if they asked to go to the bathroom...to NOT hesitate in taking them but to take them ASAP.
Jaden got to spend the day in the pig barn, cleaning pig pens and also bathing pigs with a power washer. When he said he power washed the pigs, Kaylyn gasped...but I am guessing the power washer didn't have as much power as what we know in the United States. Perhaps it was just a special nozzle on the end of a garden hose.
This evening, Kaylyn said her stomach wasn't feeling so well, so even though there was a really nice birthday party for Lydia (founder of Emmanuel), she really wasn't up to going. She stayed back. Jaden and I went and I ended up sitting at a table with Ellie, Julissa, Noe and Oscar, whereas Jaden sat at a table with Felipe and Zaiden. Jaden helped serve the plates of food to all of the tables. We were entertained once again by the same crew who danced for us last year at Lydia's birthday party and since Ellie hadn't seen this before, she was laughing to the point of tears...which was what I did last year. It was a really nice event put on by Elvia and other staff, and we were there until 8pm. Jaden, Ellie and I all walked back together since the party was at the front of the orphanage by the security gate, and then parted ways when we got to the fork in the road where one way led to the hotel and the other led to the female volunteer house where Ellie stays.
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| Noe with his cupcake |
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