Friday, September 25

It was a pretty good day at school today. Fridays are my busiest days; I don’t have any planning hours, so I teach straight through the day, except for recess and lunch of course. My fifth graders were pretty good for most of the day, but there were definitely a few times I sent a silent prayer up for patience to repeat my directions for the third time or to ask the class to be quiet for the sixth time in the same hour. Haha…I really like my kids and I understand it’s a long day to be in school, much less a bilingual school where they’re learning half of their subjects in a second language. I would like to think I’m growing in patience, but sometimes I feel like I take one step forward and two steps back. I need to be more consistent in the time I spend with God before the school day begins because I’m sure that would help more. After school we had a short staff meeting and then celebrated Laura Beth’s birthday with cake for dessert. Afterwards we headed home for our always eventful Friday nights haha. Kirsty’s spending the night because tomorrow we’re going hiking up in Celaque. She hasn’t been up to our house since we fixed it up either and we were excited to be able to hang out with her outside of school and seeing her in town. Sarah, Laura Beth and I decided to make corn tortillas, which wasn’t too hard. There’s this mix called maseca which you can buy, add water, shape the tortillas, and then fry them up. Dinner was our tortillas, eggs, avocados and beans with these homemade salsas…amazing as usual. Some of our neighbors came over last night all at the same time, so that was kinda crazy; it was like we were the house to be at on Friday night or something. After dinner we all just sat around the dinner table and talked about life up here in Villa Verde and how much we love it; Kirsty was ready to move up that night. Off to Celaque tomorrow!