Saturday and Sunday, January 23 & 24

Saturday
I slept in since I stayed up late last night and then Jafet and Candido came over to play for a bit. They love Jenga (thanks Herremas!)and they also liked to draw on the Paint program on my computer. I love them, but after a while I told them we needed to do some things around the house and get ready so they’d have to head home. They weren’t too happy about it! Poor kids…sorry! I then proceeded to clean the floors really well, laid out and took a nice dip in Froni’s pool she has up here in Villa Verde. The pool isn’t exactly like pools in the States, but it was great to cool off and relax a little bit.

We had to get out in time to get ready for the baby shower we had that night for Ms. Melgar. She is Jacki’s assistant in K4 and is having her baby in March. The baby shower was very similar to those we have in the States. We played baby games, one where we guessed how round Ms. Melgar was with toilet paper, guessed baby food flavors, and then which word meant baby in different languages. Afterwards we had dinner and cake to celebrate. There wasn’t a gift opening time because instead we each gave about $10 and that was all given to Ms. Melgar as a gift for her to use for whatever she needs for the baby. The mothers and those closest to her also gave her advice and then we prayed for her. It was pretty fun and all in Spanish of course, but it was fun to be with people from school outside of school celebrating something like that.

Kirsty, LB and I were the last ones to leave because Samuel came late and the ride was going normally until we get about half way up the hill. Then Samuel met some of his friends, got out, and was like, “They’re going to drive you the rest of the way up.” We were like, “What?!” especially when they couldn’t even get the moto started well or shift it; if they couldn’t do that on that part of the hill, we were so scared for what it would be like on the road closer to our house! Eventually we got going and they got the hang of it, but we were telling them for a while to make sure they don’t kill us. They had fun with it though and were joking around about it. We made it up, thank God, and got ready to watch the USA vs. Honduras game. It was a friendly game, a way for both of the teams to get more practice in before the Mundial in June; not all of the best players were on each team, but Honduras still won 3-1!

Sunday
After sleeping in and breakfast, I went to school with Juila, Kirsty and Tad to grade papers and decorate my door for bit. The rest of the day was pretty slow and relaxing; I had lunch, chilled in the afternoon, listened to a sermon on my computer from RezLife, and then Jacki made delicious pizza for dinner.