This morning I got up at 4am to eat breakfast, shower, do some more laundry and then more prep for the math classes. As all the kids headed to the Comedor just before 6am, I went down as well to give Julissa and Oscar each 2 packets of Instant Apple-Cinnamon oatmeal. I had brought a bunch down for my breakfasts each morning, but honestly I prefer the maple and the cinnamon and spice flavors better than the apple. I gave the packets to them and asked them if they had ever had it before, but they responded "no". So I had to tell them that they just needed to put it in a bowl and then pour boiling water over it, stir it, and let it sit for a bit before eating, waiting for the oats to soften up a bit. They asked me repeatedly if they had to add anything to it, like sugar. I said "no", that it was ALL in the packet, minus the water.
After the Comedor, I went back to the Female Volunteer House to gather up the books and notebook and headed down to the school to start off my day by teaching the 11th grade. They are learning about exponential equations (something that I had taught them last year, so it went pretty well) and limits. When it came to the limits, there was a pretty significant error in the book which definitely could set the students back if they used the book examples to study from...so I made sure they knew about this error and made the proper corrections to it. When the 11th grade class was done, I had just about 2 hours off before the 2nd class of the day, so I headed back to the Female Volunteer House to prep some more for tomorrow's classes. When it was time for that last class of the day, I headed back to the school and went to the 8th grade classroom to teach them operations with radicals. When I got to the school, students were walking around learning about different talleres (workshops) that would start up next week in the afternoon. These taller presentations actually went over into class time, but that is just how these Spanish-speaking countries tend to work. So, as expected, I began the 8th grade operations with radicals lesson late.
After the 8th grade class, I headed up to the Team House to have lunch with the team. Lashawn was up there to give her testimony after lunch. Although there were small bits and pieces of her testimony I had heard over the years, the majority of the information was new, so Noah and I stayed up to hear what she had to say. She is looking for help in the health clinic and eventually for a nurse that will take over what she does. She wants to know she will leave the orphanage in good hands, when the time comes.
After Lashawn's testimony, I walked to the school with a team member. The graduating class was having a "sale" of food, tajaditas, to raise funds for all the costs associated with graduation. Although I had ordered 2 plates earlier in the week, I wasn't hungry at all due to the big team meal. So I decided to take both plates to Noah in the wood shop for him to split between himself and Maestro (the man who is in charge of the wood shop). Maestro was there, so I gave him a plate and a beverage, but Noah was not there, so I proceeded to walk to the small boys house, where Dilver came running out and I greeted him by saying, "If you are hungry you can take these tajaditas and this juice...and then the other bag of tajaditas is for a friend who is hungry." He shook his head excitedly, grabbed them, said "Thank you!" and ran back to the Small Boys House.
I spent the rest of the day getting tomorrow's 3 lessons done, eating dinner with the team, and then retiring to the Female Volunteer House for the night where I ended up falling asleep early.
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