It's all in the hips

This morning Josh and I went with Morgan and Spencer to the school that they help out at because Raf had a meeting in Managua the night before that ran late and he had to spend the night in Managua. It was an interesting experience to say the least. I was pretty excited to see how the schools here are set up since I want to be a teacher, even if the school wasn't a normal school. The first class we went to the kids were really nice. Spencer told us that there weren't as many kids there because the buses weren't running due to the rain from the night before. The kids were very well behaved and I even recognized a few from when we visited the year before. We just sat around and helped kids make puzzles and complete sentences that the teacher had made for them to complete. During the class a few of the other special needs students came in to sell bread that they had made. Mo bought a piece and shared it with us. It was very good. One of the boys was all dressed up with an apron and a chefs hat on. After that I went with Morgan to the other class, second grade, that they help out with while Josh and Spence stayed with third grade. The classes were night and day. The second grade class the kids were louder and more rowdy. I spent more time stopping kids from hitting each other than helping them color or finish other work. We spent probably 20 minutes if that in there before it was recess. At recess Josh and I were introduced to the principal of the school. He was really nice. We watched the end of the Chile/ Switzerland game in his office. After recess all four of us went into the second grade class. I think having all 4 of us there riled them even more up. We played bingo and musical chairs with them and then it was time for us to leave. I respect Spencer and Mo so much for what they have to go through helping out those kids and still loving it every day.

After lunch Raf came over and we organized all the boots to take to San Jose into bags. We then went to exchanged a few boots for different sizes and then off we went. On the way we had to stop and pick up some bags of cement for Manuel and Big learned the true art of making the rope to hold things down tight. We told him it was in the hips but he wouldn't listen... Once we got to San Jose we found out that bringing the boots was worthless because the kids didn't have school today or the next day. So Wednesday we will hand them out. We did some scouting out for the upcoming construction sites and then went over to the lady with the high blood pressures house to check up on her. When we were leaving Mo drove the truck out of the community. She did good driving the stick and stalled out only once. Big then drove a little bit more before he handed it back over to Raf. We went to Batidos like always and got some drinks.

Once we got back to the house we all started to relax and Mo and Spencer gave big and me our first Spanish lesson of the trip. They are really going out of their way along with Don Omar and Dona Fide to help us learn Spanish, which I'm so glad they are. For me I'm understanding a lot of what people are saying but when it comes time to talk I freeze up. Hopefully with the help of all the "teachers" I will be able to speak a little more fluently before I leave.

Well that is all I have for now. I hope everyone is doing great. Anyone on the high school team reading this we are looking forward to y'all coming.
Love,
Chris