After getting myself ready for the day and heading to the Comedor, I walked with the Toddlers back to the Sala. It had rained through the night and I found it was going to rain most of the morning, so being in the Chosa like on previous Saturdays just wasn't going to cut it as the Chosa has "windows" all the way around where water and mist will definitely get through. So we watched quite a few movies. Around 9am, when one of the big girls went to get snacks for the toddlers, I headed back to the house to grab some Mexican chili-coated suckers for the big girls and also stopped at the Tienda to grab them some "churros" (their word for chips) as well. The small individual bags of churros down here cost 4 Lempiras (about 20 cents)...extremely affordable when buying in bulk. What I didn't realize is that due to walking in the rain, my phone would get wet and send me a message that moisture had gotten INSIDE the phone, rendering it practically useless for the rest of the day and evening.
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| Brithany and I watching movies in the Sala |
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| $4.00L churros |
At 9:30am we had to get the toddlers ready to head down to the gymnasium because both teams were putting on activities for each of the houses and rotating them through at certain time intervals. When we got to the gym, the first activity was getting cotton candy. I have never had cotton candy down here before so am kind of wondering if this team had the machine shipped down here on the container they sent earlier in the spring. Brithany shared a little of her cotton candy with me, she got 2 of them!...a pink and a purple one. Then another team member came around with a bag of popcorn for each toddler. They must have also shipped a popcorn making machine because that is another thing I don't remember Emmanuel having down here either. I hope that they either teach someone down here how to use those machines or let other teams know that they have those available in case they'd like to use them if they come down!
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| Brithany getting cotton candy |
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| All the toddlers nicely seated in their rain coats and boots with cotton candy |
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| Brithany with her cotton candy |
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| Brithany with popcorn |
When our time was up in the gym, we headed back to the Toddler House where I once again watched movies with the kids until it was time for me to head to lunch in the Comedor. The food for the toddlers was brought to them so they wouldn't have to go out in the rain. As the toddlers went outside to get their shoes on to come out of the Sala, they pointed out a tarantula to me against the wall by their shoes. They began taking the shoes away from the wall one by one and slowly the tarantula moved until it decided to run...INTO a toddler's shoe. One of the big girls had to come and coax it out, which took a while. After she did that the toddlers ran as the tarantula (obviously scared) ran. I have honestly never seen a tarantula move so fast!!! Another big girl, Josary, got a container and coaxed the tarantula into the orange container, and then took it away from the Toddler House and released it. But this is EXACTLY why I have told my own children through the years to check their tennis shoes each time before putting them on!
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| Toddlers found the tarantula by their shoes outside the Sala |
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| Fernanda's mom trying to get the tarantula out |
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| Scared tarantula, doesn't want to come out |
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| Josary releasing the tarantula to live another day |
Because the toddlers nap after lunch, I stayed back at the Girls Volunteer House and worked on one of the 3 remaining units I need to prepare lessons for. I decided to work on the geometry unit (inscribed polygons) as that seemed much easier to me than the vectors or statistics units. I did get most of the way through it, but have a few pages yet to finish. After the lessons, I headed to supper and then it was a super early night to bed for me since my phone still registered that it had moisture on the inside. Tomorrow will be another day.
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