Millipedes

   Just a few days prior to me coming to Emmanuel, Anna and Olivia told me they had a tarantula in the house.  And although I have not seen any tarantulas in the house yet (only a dead one outside the hotel), we have had at least a millipede pop out somewhere in the house on a daily basis.  I have had 2 in my room since being here, normally I see them in the kitchen, dining room, and living room areas.  And occasionally I see them in the bathroom.  This morning there were 2 in the bathroom that I saw.  One was in my shower (got to shower with a millipede this morning) and the other was in the middle sink in the bathroom (there are 3...I use the one on the right side and Nora uses the one on the left).  I must have cleaned them so well that it had no scum to hang on to in order to get itself out of the sink, because it spent all day there just trying and trying to climb out.  Perhaps I will help it outside at some point.

   After getting ready for the day, I headed to the Comedor to be with the toddlers and then walk them back to their house.  An 8th grade girl who works at the toddler house had asked me to give her a crash course in multiplying binomials before her retake test this morning, so we spent time at one of the tables in the dining area at the Toddler House going over as many examples as we could.  I sent the notes sheet along with her so that she could study along the way.  Time went fast and soon it was time to take the toddlers to school.  Because I had been helping the girl, I wasn't quite ready so I ended up lagging behind the group.  That was a good thing, because right around the Team House area (about 1/3 of the way to school), Anderson was all by himself in the middle of the road crying.  So I took his hand and said, "Come on, Let's go" and started talking to him about school, asking him what grade he was in, what his teacher's name was, if he had tests this week, etc.  Just anything to distract him into walking again.

Morning view from the front door of the Girls Volunteer House looking to the right

Morning view from the front door of the Girls Volunteer House looking to the left

Morning view from the back door of the Girls Volunteer House looking to the right

   When the toddlers were all situated in their classroom, I headed back to the house.  The 10th and 11th graders I was working with the past 2 afternoons had asked me to make a practice test for their big retake tomorrow.  So I spent the morning hand writing a test for each grade.  The 10th grade test ended up being 5 pages long (because it was hand written) and the 11th grade test was 3 pages long because they had 1 less topic.  My goal was to finish making these by 10am so that Nora could copy them in the elementary school.  I finished by 10:04.

   At the elementary school, Nora was in the 4th grade classroom because the 4th grade teacher is also the director of the school and pulls double duty.  So she told me that the printer was in the teachers lounge and I went there to make 3 copies of each test.  The printer they have is extremely slow, it is just a small ink jet printer that you hook up to a computer, not an industrial printer solely to make copies.  It took a minute for each page to print, so I was there for roughly a half an hour.  I hope that at some point perhaps a church or school might donate a larger working printer for the school to use.  Once I had the tests, I put them together and stapled them before heading back to the house to make the answer keys.  I finished the answer keys just in time for lunch.

  Before lunch, Noah called me from the airport.  He had ridden on the bus to go and get the teams that were coming in today.  He also had some more information on some potential surprise visitors that were flying in today as well...but more on that tomorrow if it materializes.

   On the way out of the Comedor after lunch, Graciela handed me a warm piece of bread (like a bun) that was just made and had hints of cheese in it.  I thanked her and walked with her towards the Girls Volunteer House to gather up all my things for math time.  At the school, all 6 students came in and took the test, or the bits and pieces of the test that they could figure out.  Dayana and another student also stopped by to get help on a worksheet they were given to make up 1-2 extra points on the original test they took...so it was a busy afternoon!  Before leaving the school, I gave Profe Jorge all of the practice tests along with the answer key since he said he would take that into consideration as he went through their big completed retake tomorrow.

   I have been here 15 days, and my SIM card had a plan that said it would last 15 days.  Although I wasn't cut off, I decided to order another 15 days.  After I placed the order, Noah told me that when my SIM card is about to run out I would receive a text saying I only had 20% left.  I never got that text.  So now I am wondering if I didn't need to put that extra money on it?  Perhaps I have way more data than I know what to do with?  So I decided to start using data and watch a movie each night, well at least until I get that 20% message.  I am using our Netflix account from back home, but the movies available are different here in Honduras than they are back home.  If I find a movie I enjoy along the way I will let you know!