At some point during the night, the power came back on which allowed me to do a load of laundry after getting up, showering and eating. There is no dryer in the Female Volunteer House, so I just hung all of the clothes over the bunk beds in the room I am in to air dry throughout the day. I am thankful it is the dry season because I do remember when I lived in Mexico during the wet season and had no dryer that sometimes my clothes would start to smell musty because they never really dried.
Noah left to take the special needs boys to breakfast, so while he was gone, I wrote a blog and a half online. I uploaded the first day that I was behind and fully intended to finish the second half of the next blog this evening to upload. Noah had told me that I didn't really need to get a SIM card for my phone (for internet purposes) this week because he could just create a hotspot with his phone for me to get online. The pro to this is that I am saving money...but the con is that I am at the mercy of when Noah is actually in the house, and honestly I get tired pretty easily at night. So getting behind on the blogs is going to be expected this week.
Today there weren't any classes at school. The teachers had their inservice in town, so that left the kids to either work or be in their houses. I decided to use a few hours of the day to prep for the 5 classes I will be teaching on Thursday and Friday...but then the remainder of the day was reserved for going to the Toddler House to play with Brithany. On the way to the Toddler House, I stopped by the Tienda to buy chips for each of the teen girls and Dunia (the one in charge of the Toddler House) as well as some mini jello cups for the toddlers. I stopped by their actual house first (knowing the toddlers would be in the Chosa and not the house) to give the chips to those big girls that were cleaning. Then I headed over to the Chosa to give the rest of the chips as well as the jello cups to Dunia who made sure everyone got one. There were enough mini jello cups for each toddler to have two. Brithany came over by me right away and sat on my lap. The teen girls put Moana on the TV and we watched that with Brithany sitting on my lap the entire time.
I took the toddlers to the Comedor for lunch and then walked up by the Team House where they were served chicken soup, rice, a banana, oatmeal cookie and cantaloupe. Mirna always does such a good job preparing meals for the team!
I spent the afternoon doing more prep for the remaining 5 classes I have to teach. I got Thursday's classes all ready and then got a good start to Friday's 3 classes. In the evening when Noah came back, I uploaded the 2 blogs I caught up on.
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