more in love than ever

My kids and I are going to get married, I swear. They are the cuttest, best thing in my life here in Nicaragua. So one day after class when I finally managed to get away from the screaming kids yelling, "teacher please don't go," and me having to tell them, "Don't worry its only until tomorrow," I went to grab something from my house and then headed back towards the church. When I got closer I noticed that about half or more of my kids were still there all in a group with what looked liked like a piece of paper. As i got closer they noticed I was coming and all ran up to me for another round of hugs. After, they all started asking me all kinds of questions like what's your favorite food, what is your shirt and shoe size, what's your favorite fruit, and about every other question you can imagine. It was soooo cute because they were planning a little going away party for me. I don't know how they would ever do that but just the fact of the matter was so cute I almost cried. The next day in class a few of them put together some money and bought some crackers and bananas to put in a bag for a little present for me. It was the best present I have ever gotten in my life. Right now I'm working on thinking of ideas of how I can leave my kids with things to do with English once I leave. I don't just want to leave them with nothing. If anyone has any ideas please let me know!

awww.

today I was on the bus like normal heading to class and then something soooo cute happened! My kids were at the bus stop all waiting for me to come in and when they saw the bus they all started running with it to meet me. It was the cuttest thing ever! I love them sooooo much.

little visitor

so there was a monkey on the roof last night. . . having a party or something and i swear it was coming straight for my bed since the roof in my room has the biggest gap in it. great!

Friends Forever

So my best friend michele was here for a week and it was soooooooo fun! When she first came we stayed in the Pastor Bayardo's house for a night then had our own little room in Cataraina. First we went to the lagoon all day!!! It was so fun. Michele and I swam out really far, taught the guys how to swim, and took TONS of pictures with the underwater camera! Which, might I add, broke half way through the trip, so we only have less than half of our trip on camera :( And i didn't have my camera, because I left it in my house in Nandasmo. After that we went to a 5 star Resort on the beach. . . it was so nice. It was unlimited everything, food, drinks, facilities and anything else you could want. We just chilled in the pool and on the beach all day and ate all the food we wanted! The beach lifeguard definitely had to come out into the water to tell us that we had gone way too far out. OK I'm sorry, but the waves were so big and sooo fun! Oh and we also went to the spa and got pampered! After that we came back and did some tourist shopping and just hung out with some of my friends! It was perfect, and I'm so glad she got to come. I have about two months left. Teaching is going good. I don't understand how I keep getting more and more students everyday! I've finally figured out a way to teach verbs and sentences rather than just vocabulary, and it's going really well! I can actually see that the kids are learning, and it makes me really happy! I also have a 5 year old girl and another boy that I give separate private classes to. In about a week I'm going to be teaching another group of teenagers (I think) 3 times a week. Soon I'm going to start working on a scrapbook for the church; that should be fun to make.! Well, i gotta go teach right now!

more and more love.

Fist, the other day I was walking with Mira in Nandasmo and found this school with a big school yard. . . a perfect place for Mira to run without me worrying about her being smashed by one of the crazy buses here. We were playing for about 3 hours just running, and finally I was like ok we gotta go. Then I noticed that all the lights in the school had been turned off and I was the only one with Mira! So we walked to the exit and everything was all locked up everywhere! I thought ohhh gosh now what. . . . so eventually I found a spot where there wasn't a huge amount of barbed wire where I would hop the fence WITH Mira in my arms. I must say it was very interesting, but I'm alive! I went to the lagoon again. We left early in the morning and climbed back up when it was dark! I'm actually starting to get in shape again. This time I climbed the whole thing without stopping once in just over 30 minutes! I'm pretty sure I still had some left at the end! Soon I'm going to run it! maybe. . . . And I'm going again tomorrow! My class is going amazing. We have so much fun. I really am completely in love with my kids. I don't know how I'm going to leave them. Everyday when I'm walking to class, they meet me in the middle of the street running as fast as they can, so they can hopefully be the first one to reach me. I really wish I had about 30 more arms to have one for each of them. The other day there was so much emotion, we actually fell over on the ground! In my morning class today it was me and five other girls. We did some English, and then realized my camera was in my back pack, so we had a girls day taking pictures, laughing, and we walked all over Catarina taking pictures having so much fun. I also have a special project planned for my class with English and the Bible that I will tell how it goes after! One thing that is very hard is to see my students come in the exact same clothes everyday to class! I really with I could just fill their drawers with clothes, but right now I can't but I also have an idea for this too that I will say later!

Class

I just got done teaching my first class, and right now I am in the "garden house" where I go to eat lunch everyday in between my classes. They are so nice, because they take really good care of me and don't ask that I pay anything. In my first class, we made menus for the kids' restaurants, and then we played a game where there is a song playing and the kids are passing around a ball. Before they can pass it they have to say the name of a food or drink in English. If they have the ball when the music stops they are out, and the last person in the game wins a prize. They loved it and got so serious. It was so funny. Yesterday I learned the Lords prayer in Spanish . . go me. Right now I'm really really hungry! Saturday I'm going to the lagoon with a bunch of people!