Wednesday, Oct 7

We had chapel today and my schedule for my 5th graders and chapel is so screwy because they normally have the big kid recess, but they have the little kids chapel. So they get screwed over. I taught math and science for 50 minutes each, which after science the kids were like “Miss, when is it recess? I’m hungry…” all of that. So I promised them that if chapel went into their recess time I would let them out of chapel early; and that’s what I had to do. I felt kinda bad interrupting chapel with them leaving, but they left quietly. So I talked to Mr. Lara about it and he’s like ‘Well let them have the little kid recess on Wednesdays, and then go to chapel. This works, but then there’s like this 10 minute gap between when chapel gets done and the big kid recess gets done and what I am supposed to do then? So I’ll just have to try it out next week and see how it goes. We went to town today and rode the bus down with the kids. I sat with 2 of my boys. One of my boys, Husai, is pretty popular with the girls right now, so I was telling him I knew which girls liked him. And then Husai, Marcos, and Carlos (all my students) proceeded to tell me who they think each other likes and who they used to like and yelling “Mentiras (lies)!” if they didn’t think it was true. It was so cute and hilarious. We did our normal town errands of the bank, shopping and internet. We had seen a pupusa place earlier that we had really wanted to eat at so we headed over there about 6:30pm. Jacki, Laura Beth and I went into this small place, sat down and asked the ladies about the kinds they had, how big they were and how much they were. We decided what we wanted and then started to order and the lady was like ‘Oh, we’re closing; we don’t have anymore; come back tomorrow.’ It was the weirdest thing. Here we are, asking all these questions about their food, sitting at one of their tables, you would think they would’ve told us that BEFORE all of this. I felt slighted and that’s the first time I’ve felt that here. So we packed up again and didn’t want to search for another place to eat in the dark and decided to head to the Chinese restaurant in town, and yes there’s Chinese food here and its amazing.