This morning at breakfast, I gave Noe the muffins that Ellie, Kaylyn and Zoey had made last night. Prior to heading to the school to teach, I worked on the answer key to the homework for 9th grade, finished up the lesson plan for today and then worked on the answer key to the homework that 10th grade had assigned for Monday. We wrapped up graphing systems of equations in 9th grade today, working through 3 examples together (yesterday we did 2 examples). I decided to do the last example of the 5 in English so that students could see how similar words are in the 2 languages in the arena of mathematics. (intercepts = interceptos, solution = solucion, verify = verificar, multiply = multiplicar, divide = dividir, etc). They were amazed that they could go through a problem in another language and actually understand it!
Kaylyn spent the morning with the toddlers in the Chosa and said that they watched the Princess and the Frog, which is her favorite movie. Then she said that the toddlers had to drink Pedialyte because of all of the sick toddlers this week that have had diarrhea. She said most of the toddlers either refused to drink it, spit it out, or just dumped out their cup of Pedialyte on the floor. I wasn't surprised because all 5 of my children hated that beverage growing up. I remember tasting it once myself and thinking "There has GOT to be a better way than this yucky stuff to get kids their electrolytes back!"
Jaden began his day by watering Alexander's plants in the Greenhouse, then he said he had to go on a "scavenger hunt" (his words) for Chino. When he finally found him, they were weed whacking and Jaden still has a lot to learn about that since he kicked up a lot of stuff, including a rock which hit him in the chest. I reminded him that he needs to be wearing his goggles and NOT his glasses, thankfully nothing hit went under the glasses and hit him in the eye. Chino said that he had told Jaden a few times which way to swing the weed whacker in order to not kick so much stuff back up at you, but I am guessing that Jaden is just going to have to learn the hard way. After week whacking the grass, they had to rake it up and dispose of it. Then he went to the horse barn for some chores and finally hung out with the medium boys a little bit. He let me know that Chino got a new boy in his house named Cristofer (who I was introduced to that evening at church).
This evening for supper, Dilmer was the absolute last child in the Comedor to finish his food. Because he was eating so slowly, at one point Rollie came over to him and had a serious conversation with him (guessing about picking up the pace with eating his food) and Kaylyn reported that after Rollie talked to Dilmer, Rollie rolled his eyes. I had to chuckle at that because I would have definitely been in the same boat. Dilmer was SO SLOW in eating that ALL of the other children had left the Comedor to head back to their houses for the evening, and he was STILL there, alone in that huge Comedor with one of the bigger boys who helps at his small boys house helping him to eat the last bites of his meal.
At church, 3 team members gave their testimony to the children of Emmanuel. One of them spoke a bit of Spanish, so she did her testimony in Spanish, not needing translation from Rollie. After church, staff was invited up to the Team House for pizza, so we headed that way as well and enjoyed good times with other staff and the team. One lady came up to me and was excited, saying "I haven't seen you in FOUR years!!!" Although I did not remember her, I smiled and asked "Has it really been that long? 2019?" But that was definitely the point where I realized that when some people (team members of very short term volunteers) are not remembered by staff or children here, I was now in that same situation...just like those here.
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