Monday-Wednesday, May 31- June 2

Monday
My unexpected day off! It’s unfortunate that the reason for it is flooding, but I still enjoyed having a day off of school. I slept in and then headed to town. Tad needed a haircut and I needed to go to the bank and get a few things. We headed down with Juan Carlos, stopped at the bank first, then did some shopping and went to the haircut place called Freddy’s Tad had been to before. It was around lunchtime by now, so when we arrived there, it was closed! We spotted another one a little farther down the street and decided to try it out. The guy gave a fine haircut for $2 and the lucky thing about guys’ hair is that if it gets messed up, it can be fixed much easier than a girl’s can. I’ve just been letting Jacki and Sarah cut my hair down here; I’m not courageous enough to go to a place in Gracias, nor do I know enough Spanish to tell them what I want. After that we went to the restaurant that sells cheap tacos where I ate some great chicken for lunch. Afterwards, we stayed at Guancascos til 4pm, then came back up to have dinner. Laura Beth and I made sweet and sour chicken and made a lot, so we invited the guys to join us, which they willingly did. After enjoying our dinner, we relaxed for the rest of the night before school tomorrow.

Tuesday
Back to school…tiring day and my kids were crazy. I felt like I got nothing done and was a little frazzled from moving things to different days because we didn’t have school on Monday. Our field trip was canceled again so instead we’ll be playing at school all day either on the field or games in the classroom. Tutorias went well with Adolfo and Jenny; we got a lot of assignments that they had missed done. I stayed after with Jenny for a bit because her mom was late, listening to Jonas Brothers, per her request. I usually don’t walk home by myself after school because it makes the walk so much easier and faster. Well today I walked back by myself and it was definitely weird and slightly boring. I arrived home, did the dishes, talked with LB for a while, had baked pasta for dinner made by yours truly and then relaxed the rest of the night.

Wednesday
‘Field trip day’ all day today! After being canceled two times, the fifth and sixth graders got to have a field day instead of a field trip. First, we had classes in the morning and chapel as well; Tad talked about the armor of God. The rest of the day, the kids got to play in the field, which for most of them consisted of playing futbol for 2 hours. They have endless energy and passion for that game; it’s insane! The kids who didn’t play futbol played games in the shade instead. They had 5 periods to play and then had art to end the day. We went to town for a few things. The rest of the night I spent grading for progress reports on Friday and relaxing.