DAY 6 Tuesday May 19:

Kate…

So, last night we slept in Santa Rosa (J)  The power went out, so Jairo, our neighbor, and Alberto, a gardener from El Transito, took us to Santa Rosa… on motorcycles!  Beth says, “Sorry Mom.”  It was my first time and I had a blast!  WHEEEE!  Beth wants to agree, but feels like she can’t say it out loud. Oopsies.  But just know she’s thinking it.

This morning, we began teaching the kids the words that most questions begin with: Who, What, When, etc…  We practiced the pronunciations and basic and common questions that they might come across.  We had them practice in pairs or, compañeros, and you could really tell who was trying and practicing when we told them to.  After they practiced for a couple of minutes with their partner, Beth and I would walk around and ask one student to say the question and the other the answer, and after that, we asked them to switch roles.  The ones who didn’t try expected us to completely say it word by word for them, which kind of tested my patience.  But definitely a test from God…  The ones who did practice were ready for us with their best pronunciation possible.  Their homework was to practice saying who, what and when for the next class.

We forgot to mention that Jairo put up two hammocks for us yesterday. AWESOMEEEEE.  So, when we got back from class, guess what we did?  Yup, you got it, hammock timeeeee.  YES!  Amilcar dropped by, which means, he wasn’t in class.  Muy mal.  But we hung out with him nonetheless and had some fun just talking.  I busted out my mini iPod shuffle and let him listen to it.  He was so funny, so I gave him both headphones and let him dance away.  Too cute.  And hilarious.  And precious.  Oddly enough, Colbie Callait was his favorite singer, and he especially liked the song “The Little Things”.  He even tried to memorize some of the words.  Haha too cute.

For lunch, Ronal and Elle had us over for lunch.  We had ceviche, tuna, and rice and beans.  YUMMYYYYY.  While we were eating, the kids came home from school and ate their lunch too.  Alminto was chowing down on his food, so much, that half of it spilled all down his shirt and pants.  All he did was laugh and say “mama!”

In the afternoon class, we continued working on the question words.  The Pastor attended class today and every time he said something in English, whether he said right or not, he expected an applause.  Which he got, by the way, with a few giggles in between.

At 5 PM, we headed to the “cancha” or basketball court.  We played soccer for about two hours.  DURO!  I am proud to say, the girls took the cake AGAIN!  We beat the boys by not 1, 2, or 3 goals, but 4!  After Beth and I scored a goal, we would both do a crazy celebration.  Most of them laughed at us at first, but before you knew it, everyone had their own victory dance!

On the way back to Rancho Fifo, the lights went out. Perf.  Ronal and Elle had us over again for dinner, in the dark.  While we were waiting, we played with Emily, Ronal, and Alminto and got some pretty cute pictures of them.  For dinner we had… RICE AND BEANS!  And some fried cheese.  Interesante…

Because the lights were out, we went to Santa Rosa again.

A pretty comical day overall.  Gracias a Dios.