This morning Jaden woke up with a swollen lip, and it was quite swollen. We asked him if he got into a fight, although honestly we would have heard about it from whoever was in charge of the groups he was with yesterday. The only possible conclusion we could come to when he said, "No" was that he was bitten ON the lip overnight by a mosquito. He rarely covers up and he does not wear the bug protection that we brought down (although you definitely wouldn't apply that to your lips), so in a way, this is more on him. It should go down throughout the day, and definitely by tomorrow.
Today was the FIRST day since pre-COVID that the kids got to do a traditional BIG Circle. They all had to meet outside the hotel and they form a super-sized circle (hence the name), and then they have devotions together and sing together. Chino led the devotion for today and prior to him taking us through the Word today, the grandecitas and the grandes recited their verses for today. Alejandra was part of this group, so I definitely enjoyed watching. They generally practice for 4-5 weeks before they have to recite a chapter of the Bible. Zoey and April joined us for Big Circle, which was awesome as they're leaving tomorrow and they have never seen one before.
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| Jaden, Kaylyn and Dilmer |
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| Kaylyn, Gibran and Jaden |
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| Kaylyn, Cristofer, Jaden and Alejandra's brother |
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| Kaylyn and Alejandra |
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| The grandecitas and grandes reciting their verses |
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| Chino with this morning's devotion |
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| Big Circle |
After breakfast, Kaylyn and I headed to the Chosa. It's Zoey's last day in here, so we tried to have fun. During some down time in the Chosa, where the kids were otherwise occupied, I began to work on my last lesson plan for Monday. I will be reviewing the 6 types of functions that they have studied and learned how to graph in a Jeopardy-type formatted game. Kaylyn recommended to do it that way. I am going to try to remember to take pictures of the classrooms prior to leaving, but honestly it hadn't even crossed my mind the past 4.5 weeks.
We walked the toddlers to lunch and then I headed back to my room to do final preparations on the Ensenanza for the big girls. This is devotional time that they have Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 3pm after school gets done. The topic was on Leah, although if you'd like to know more...you will have to ask.
Jaden watered Alexander's plants today. I had to ask him about this, because it seems like it's been about 5 days since he's mentioned to me having watered them the last time. He spent the morning with Chino painting the steps to the Medium Boys house, and there is paint all over a pair of shorts that actually fit him well...so those will not be coming home. In the afternoon, he was in the Horse Barn, moving wood and sweeping.
The big highlight of the night was Kaylyn asking me if she could spend the night up in the Girls Volunteer House with Zoey and Ellie. I was very much okay with it, but let her and Zoey know that Zoey's mom had to be okay with it, especially since Zoey was leaving tomorrow. With both moms' permissions, and Ellie's permission, Kaylyn got packed up around 6pm and headed up to the Volunteer House, very much excited. I reminded her as she went out the door that she had to make sure she got up on time and left the house when Ellie did in the morning.
And with that it was just Jaden and me in the room for the night. So I decided to put on the movie "Heart of Stone" which was supposed to be an action movie. The movie was alright, probably Jaden liked it more than me, but it ended about 8:20pm and then the rains came, which made for a cooler and more comfortable night to be able to fall asleep.
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