Asociación Jovenes en Camino
Apdo. postal 30004, correo de Toncontin
Tegucigalpa - Honduras C.A.
Apdo. postal 30004, correo de Toncontin
Tegucigalpa - Honduras C.A.
Well, Wednesday morning we experienced our first unforeseen power outage! We were literally in the middle of typing up a blog when everything shut off. As frustrating as this would be in the States, the only people it affected here was us. Life went on normally without electricity. It's such a good feeling to not be tied down to the luxury of electricity. But this gave us a good time to catch up on our journaling.
At 11:30, and after watching several games of corn-hole, we made our way down the road to pick up the boys from school. Boys, get ready for this, we had an entire conversation about sports...in Spanish!!! We talked about our favorite baseball teams, basketball teams, and which team Peyton Manning is now playing for and whether or not we thought it was a good thing (this part of the conversation was slightly confusing at times). We were really thankful for our chapter on sports from this past semester. Then, on the way back we talked with the boys about school and their classes. One of the boys even dug a paper out of his backpack to boast on his 20/20 on a quiz. I felt like a proud mother; I even had to show Laura and brag on him some more! It is so great to be able to have so many different kinds of conversations now. We have already begun learning enough new words to talk about things other than "Hola, ¿cómo estás?".
At lunch, we really felt like part of the Jovenes family. We found out that if you don't finish ALL of your food...you have to stay and clean the kitchen. Laura and I both were the laughing stock as all the boys in Casa Rosada called us out while handing us brooms and staying to watch the show. It was good though to know that everyone (including the cooks) are feeling comfortable enough with us to call us out on something like that. This is a problem though, because they eat their biggest meal at lunch time and we can never finish all our food. Looks like we will be cleaning the kitchen a lot.
Elbin saved us from having another long conversation with Adonay about girls and facebook to tell us that we were having a meeting in the office. Come to find out when we got there, we were having a "fiesta" to say goodbye to the doctors (they are on a rotation and their time here is finished). We were really excited to have chips and spinach dip...it reminded us of home! Then, completely unlike home, was the cake. For some reason they make their cakes with jelly and some sort of pudding in between the layers and fruit on the top. It wasn't terrible, but definitely not the kind of cake I would want for my birthday. The doctors also invited Laura and I on a trip with Casa Verde on Saturday to some sort of water park. We are really excited about this because it will give us an opportunity to spend some time with the older boys who are harder to get to know.
The fifth graders have a quiz today, so last night was all about studying! Laura went over the same 5 questions with them at least 50 times. Don't worry...they will (or they should) all get 100's on their quizzes. We even created a game show to make the studying more fun for the boys...and for us as well!
The brigade from Monday is coming back in about 30 minutes so we have to go get ready for them but we will post about the rest of our day later!
"Buen Dia!"
Hannah and LauraBeth
At 11:30, and after watching several games of corn-hole, we made our way down the road to pick up the boys from school. Boys, get ready for this, we had an entire conversation about sports...in Spanish!!! We talked about our favorite baseball teams, basketball teams, and which team Peyton Manning is now playing for and whether or not we thought it was a good thing (this part of the conversation was slightly confusing at times). We were really thankful for our chapter on sports from this past semester. Then, on the way back we talked with the boys about school and their classes. One of the boys even dug a paper out of his backpack to boast on his 20/20 on a quiz. I felt like a proud mother; I even had to show Laura and brag on him some more! It is so great to be able to have so many different kinds of conversations now. We have already begun learning enough new words to talk about things other than "Hola, ¿cómo estás?".
At lunch, we really felt like part of the Jovenes family. We found out that if you don't finish ALL of your food...you have to stay and clean the kitchen. Laura and I both were the laughing stock as all the boys in Casa Rosada called us out while handing us brooms and staying to watch the show. It was good though to know that everyone (including the cooks) are feeling comfortable enough with us to call us out on something like that. This is a problem though, because they eat their biggest meal at lunch time and we can never finish all our food. Looks like we will be cleaning the kitchen a lot.
Elbin saved us from having another long conversation with Adonay about girls and facebook to tell us that we were having a meeting in the office. Come to find out when we got there, we were having a "fiesta" to say goodbye to the doctors (they are on a rotation and their time here is finished). We were really excited to have chips and spinach dip...it reminded us of home! Then, completely unlike home, was the cake. For some reason they make their cakes with jelly and some sort of pudding in between the layers and fruit on the top. It wasn't terrible, but definitely not the kind of cake I would want for my birthday. The doctors also invited Laura and I on a trip with Casa Verde on Saturday to some sort of water park. We are really excited about this because it will give us an opportunity to spend some time with the older boys who are harder to get to know.
The fifth graders have a quiz today, so last night was all about studying! Laura went over the same 5 questions with them at least 50 times. Don't worry...they will (or they should) all get 100's on their quizzes. We even created a game show to make the studying more fun for the boys...and for us as well!
The brigade from Monday is coming back in about 30 minutes so we have to go get ready for them but we will post about the rest of our day later!
"Buen Dia!"
Hannah and LauraBeth
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