Wednesday, Sept 23

I love my job, but sleeping in is glorious. Today was probably one of the laziest days I’ve had. We weren’t supposed to go into town so we settled in our house and our biggest events of the day were our meals haha. We had a big breakfast, then I read for a while, did my devotions, did some laundry on the pila, and read some more. Jacki and Laura Beth tried chopping a path through our yard full of tall grasses to find somewhere to put the hammock Laura Beth bought, but that didn’t get very far. It was hilarious to watch though. I climbed a little bit of the road into the forest and it’s amazing how even the slightest change in height can change your view of the road, my house and the valley; it looks even better. Laura Beth, Sarah and I sat around talking about relationships for a little while, which was really good. We decided we were going to go down to Julia’s house by the school and the river, but as we started down the mountain, these rain clouds came out of nowhere and it started pouring; so no river for us today. We had also wanted to learn how to make flour tortillas since we already knew how to make the corn ones. We tromped on over to Sonia’s and she showed us how to make them. It’s the same basic idea except you need to stretch the tortilla farther so it’s larger. She spent a good 20 minutes kneading the dough though and it amazed me how strong her arms must be from doing this so often. It takes a lot of work to make tortillas, especially these ones. We made some, which turned out ok and then she treated us to dinner and made us baleadas with the tortillas we made. We each ate four, which is a lot, but we were starving! We weren’t sure about school tomorrow, but then we got a call that we were going back since the curfew was only going to be tomorrow night. I went to bed on time, but woke up in the middle of the night to a loud noise in our kitchen. I woke up freaked out thinking someone or something was in our house. We had had a mouse and I was afraid it was back, so I didn’t want to go out there in the dark by myself right away. So I stood at my door, watching outside in the kitchen and then I see…a cat. It must have walked into our door because it walked right back out. I went into the kitchen and it had jumped on our counter and fridge and knocked some stuff of the shelves. So either it was looking for food or the mouse or something. What a night.