Things are so beautiful around here lately! There are new flowers blooming every day outside my house. The trees are full of flowers too. I think my favorite tree flower is bright fushia. It is so bright it seems to almost glow. The sun has been shining for about 2 weeks now and people went from complaining about the cold to complaining about the heat literally overnight. It is hot down in the city. It's nice up in the mountains at my house.
Last week we had a movie night on Thursday. The whole Sarmiento family, Marcela, Walter and I watched Les Miserables. Afterward we were singing everything rather than speaking. Jairo was hilarious. He rarely watches movies with us, but he seemed to like this one. We laughed and laughed. I wished we had a movie camera. Joss said if we had a video of that night it would be perfect for the second episode of "Keeping up with Los Sarmiento". We have been making cookies and watching movies afterward at the Sarmientos about once per week. Joss loves to bake and I like to have a family sort of night. It's nice.
Friday night I went and watched the men from the church play fútbol against the boys from La Tigra. Karla was there watching Jose play so it was nice to catch up with her.
Jairo got in a weekend of fishing with his brother and Aaron. He said they caught lots of fish and Aaron caught one too.
Sunday was Marcela's 21sr birthday. I was invited to a birthday party at her house. It was really nice. Almost everyone was family, so I was honored to be invited. Her family is really fun. Her Aunt and Uncle invited me to dinner at their house soon. They are awesome. Almost everyone at the party spoke English. I thought that was interesting. Many of them have studied in the US. At birthday parties in Honduras most people don't bring presents. Your presence is the present.
Today Lourdes tried to come back to the Breakfast Program. She was on bed rest by Dr's orders since she fell last week. I saw that she could barely walk when she got out of the car. She realizes now that she needs to take another week of rest. I wonder if her Fibromyalgia made the effects of the fall worse.
We got home early today! Jairo and I did some grocery shopping. I found a perfect laundry basket for 58 lempiras (less than $3.00). That was quite exciting, I got home about 4:30, which has to be a record within the past month. We are still going full speed. I thought after the boys from El Sembrador went to school things would slow down, but not yet. Reports are that the boys are all doing very well and are happy at school.
The preschool class has been exceptionally small lately. I'm not sure why. It's kind of nice though. I can really give the kids a lot of specialized attention. We work on their individual needs each day. For example Misael is four years old. If you ask him how old he is he holds up 4 fingers, but he cannot say with words that he is four. He can recognize numbers 1-3, but not number 4. So we are working on that. Today a new boy was there when we got out the puzzles. He had never seen a puzzle before. Misael is actually pretty good at puzzles, but the new boy was trying to put pieces together with the cardboard back showing instead of the picture. He just didn't seem to get it.
Last week one of the Moms from Los Pinos cooked something on the stove, then she didn't know how to turn off the burner. I always think of her as just like me. I never considered that she probably cooks over a fire at home. I also noticed that the ladies don't know how to set things to dry in a dish rack, They must not have running water with a sink and dish rack. I certainly take a lot of things for granted. I never thought about a person not knowing to put a cup upside down so it will dry in a dish rack.
