So for those of you who know me well you know that i rather enjoy the blog site My Life Is Average...if you havent already been there dont go...you will either get addicted to it or will be thouroughly confused by the harry potter and ninja references. anywho...so i have a tendency to take funny/average moments in my life and put them into the MLIA format and qoute myself. When you live in a foreign country experiencing a million new things a day you begin to think wow my life is not even the slightest bit average...and then the clock strikes 4 o clock and a string of average events happens. So this is my afternoon in MLIA format...
Today, i went to get out of the car and my leg bumped my bag, which holds my absolutely necessary umbrella, and hit myself in the face...I now have a semi fat lip. MLIA :)
then about 30 minutes later i had this little bit of averageness...
Today, i asked my tica mom for the keys to the house. I couldnt get them to open the gate that leads to the stairs that lead to the door. the gate is metal and has bars so i stuck my hand through the bar and tried to unlock it from the inside. it was raining and my hands were wet. i droped the keys. the bottom of the door does not have bars so i couldnt get them out. i took the walk of shame back to my host mom and told her i had dropped the keys inside. she laughed and pretended to scold me and then got the spairs from the neighbors house and walked in the now pouring rain to let her poor incompitant gringa in the house. MLIA
Yesterday, i was telling my host family about why we were taking the bus in the mornings now and not getting a ride with our neighbor. i was exhausted and the spanish was coming out a bit sloppily. i told them that we couldnt ride with Domingo anymore because his car was ugly. they burst into laughter. and when it subsided i corrected myself and told them his car was broken. there is no doubt in my mind that Domingo heard about my calling his car ugly and that being the reason for me taking the bus. MLIA
Anywho. in all reality life is anything but average here and i am loving it. For example my host family bought peanut butter...Amazing. Also this morning i was served hot chocolate. made my day. even on the most exhausting of days there is always at least one little unexpected bit of goodness...like going to bed at 9 last night. Things are getting busy with the ministry as i am getting a bit more responsibility and am sorting out the way we want to run the ESL ministry. I´m learning my bus route...although my next door neighbor is a gringa as well so i rarely go alone...and getting comfortable in my surroundings. Dont miss the physical comforts of home just the people :)
So for those of you who spend all day thinking of questions to ask me and then never get responses (hi aunt shirley :) here are some of the every day details to help paint a picture of what i do here...
Host family is dad-randall, mom -ebruana, 12 year old bro-jonathan, 8 year old bro-emanuel, and 6 year old sister and roomie- emily, and a cat named kele...that i actually really like...mostly because it acts like a dog :)
Monday through Thursday i teach ESL in the mornings from 8am till 11 or 9:30 depending on the day.
then i hike up the hill about a half mile or less with my teaching partner and help tutor girls at el refugio, the alternative high school here for girls that arent in regular school for one reason or another. i usually help with math b-c i´m the only one there who enjoys-remembers it. Thank you elementary ed major. :) this is till 12 when we break for lunch, rice beans and something else, almost every day
then in the afternoon there is more tutoring and usually a craft of somesort that i sometimes help throw together and sometime in the next month im going to start helping with a bible study for the girls.
then monday and thursday afternoon we walk back down to la segunda and tutor young kids who just need extra practice...im super helpful as long as they are not doing spanish work...i have discovered that although i can read at probably a 5th grade level in spanish when it comes to first grade type things like syllables and rhyming words...i am sorely lacking :)
wed afternoon is kids club, basically a bible club where the kids hear a story and do a craft...there are anywhere from 40 to 50 kids who all want to hug and tickle you. Tuesdays end a bit earlier...thus the reason im home on the computer. and fridays are all at el refugio.
so there that should cover just about everything you could want to know for now logistically.
If you made it thus far...thanks for sticking in there...now go find a book to read, or get back to work shipping books...hi sandy and pam and ladies!
Love you all
have a great day
pura vida
kt
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