Pizza goes welll with Iguana soup...wait, we have neither.

So sorry we haven't posted in the last couple of days. It's been crazy around here :) So, let's see if I can't recap the past little while and catch y'all up to speed on how everything's going around here.
On Wednesday we went to school as usual and Profe Yadira wasn't there so we stayed in the second grade classroom for the whole time. We found out that there was going to be a parade today (Friday) but that they had like NO materials do make the float. We also found out that our teacher has absolutely no paper to make handouts for her class and that she's been trying to get the kids to bring a notebook to work in. One of our students, Jefferson ran out of paper so Profe Johanna went around trying to find some out of the back of her notebooks. After we left Spenc and I decided to go to the school supply store and get some paper for our class and some materials for the float. It's such a blessing to get to be apart of serving others as if we were serving the Lord himself. I find so much joy in that. After lunch we went with Raf to Las Canas to give one of the community leaders the medical tickets for this coming week. Each medical team gives us a number as to how many people they can see in a day and then we take the community. Then the week before the group comes they can distribute them to the people they know need medical attention. So we got to do that and the rest of the night was spent just hanging out with the kids on the street...if I remember correctly. It seems like that's the most likely thing that happened anyways since we do that every night basically.
Thursday was great! We got up and went to a parade that Raf and Lesbia's kids Ashley and Pallito were in to celebrate their "Earth Day" or Madre Tierra. Ashely was dressed like a flower with a mask that had different colored petals on it while Pallito was a tree and had leaves springing up off his "trunk" which was like foam board wrapped around him. They both looked precious! We spent the rest of the day in San Jose again doing more of the census. The ministry really wants to establish friendship with the communinty and individual households and not just go in, "fix" the community and leave. I really like that. Jesus was very relational and cared about people's hearts and lives. We came home and rested up a little bit aka SIESTA :). Then we went over the Raf and Lesbia's for dinner and a movie. Whew! Getting to eat Lesbia's cooking and watch a good movie...Benjamin Button...a good time was definitely had.
I might as well tell you about today too. Spenc is currently outside playing with the boys; I'll let him keep that up and give him one less thing to worry about tonight. We got up earllllly this morning to head to the school for the parade!
We all got on the bus from the school and went to a field near monkey park where we met up with seemingly every other school-aged student in the city. There had to have been over 1,000 kids. All the different schools had floats lined up. This parade was to celebrate Madre Tierra too. Most of our special needs students stayed in the bus as we started walking but some were on the float which Spenc and I "supervised" with some of the other teacher and other students walked with us. We probably walked for like an hour and a half or two hours around the city dancing, singing, it was so fun! Everything here is a celebration. Spenc and I were talking and it seems to us that every week there is something to celebrate. That's more than fine by us :). After the parade ended we went with Raf and Lesbia to Managua to get the food and cleaning supplies for the group that's coming TOMORROW NIGHT! It was a long day but we're home now and all the rooms are ready to go for the team! I can't wait. It's been absolutely wonderful to have these first few weeks to get settled in, but I'm pumped to see Cornelia again and Big and Chris get here tomorrow too so y'all will for sure be hearing from them on here soon!

Can carino,

M.