Saturday and Sunday, February 27 & 28

Saturday
The last few Saturdays have been rainy, which changes our plans to walk to town on Saturdays. It’s not very good motivational weather either! I attempted to get some work done after sleeping in and got a call from Renske and Laura (the two European girls who teach in La Union) saying they were in town and wanted to come up to Villa Verde to visit and say hi. So we spent the afternoon with them, showing them our house and neighborhood as well as catching up. Renske is the 5th grade teacher in La Union and she and I decided we’d try to do a pen pal thing between the 5th graders in Gracias and La Union. I’m excited to see how that turns out! After we hung out for a bit, most of us headed back to town with the girls for dinner at a nicer restaurant. I got fettuccine alfredo with chicken; it was so good! The girls were staying at Guancascos, so we hung out there for a while before heading back to Villa Verde for the night.

Sunday
Today was another chill day; I slept in, did some school work, relaxed by the river for a little bit and caught up with my family and some friends. It gets frustrating being down here for the reason that I usually have to be the one to contact my family and friends by phone because the call is international and cheaper for me to call them. They can’t just pick up the phone and call me. So that’s another thing to think about and it’s gets hard to try to coordinate schedules to make sure I can talk to someone when I call them. Despite it being a relaxing day, I am still not ready for Monday and another week to start.