This day began with a choice for breakfast of fruit or eggs. I would have loved only the fruit but egg is protein so we were served scrambled eggs and sausage Xela style, with tortillas, and at the end, a cup of tea. We walk so much that fruit just does not last till our next meal which is served to the whole family around 2 or 2:30 pm. Then we headed for class. We began working on verbs in the present tense. I think Marlo stuck her head into the room today because Patty was making a bigger effort to stay with Spanish only in class. I think it is a fine idea; particularly if I had enough words (polabras) to use to say what I need to say. I will do my best not to get her into trouble since I know she needs the money from teaching. We took a small field trip to an Internet cage to print a report in color that Patty needed for school. On our field trips we converse in Spanish and identify objects, people, things, etc. as we walk. That is why the guys -- Don and Juan -- give us a hard time about our "Spanish for women." We had to extend our field trip because the first cafe could not print in color.
Don and Juan took a field trip to a Mennonite operated bread store. They are only open 2 days a week. They came back with raisin bread, yogurt for me, and cheese. It was a good snack. The afternoon activity scheduled by the school is a trip to a local orphanage.
It must be tough to live with 11 boys from age 9 to 12!!! They all looked healthy and a far as we could tell happy. Before we could take them to the park they all had to have a bath which was done with a great deal of gusto!! I was glad not to be the next in line for a bath.
In the kitchen there was a great long dinning table with benches which would be the easiest way to feed that many boys. The living room had a sofa & TV. The room in the front had a fireplace and a love seat. When all were clean we hiked to a pitiful park. It was full of trash & overgrown grass with way to many pieces of equipment and many in need of repair or trashed. The lost boys still enjoyed the outing. Don bought everybody a chocolate covered banana which is a sweet everyone seems to love here.
Back at the house we setteled in to do some homework. We ended up staying in for the night and not walking to the Internet cafe. It was nice to be still for a bit. I rested well and the nap did not disturb bed time.
