Cheesecake!

Honduras played Canada last Saturday so a group of us headed to Ceiba to watch. The game was a home game played in San Pedro Sula, the second largest City in Honduras. Honduras played awesome and won 3-1 so there was a huge celebration in Ceiba and as usual it was very eventful. They played Jamaica last night (we didn´t go into town because it was a school night) and lost 0-1. Honduras now needs to either beat or tie Mexico in November to be in the running for the 2010 World Cup. They play at home, here in Honduras in San Pedro Sula, and I and some other volunteers are for sure going to go and watch it! The Honduran couple I live with are already SO emotional just thinking about the game and trying to plan everything so that we can all go.

School and the kids are doing well. We have the most volunteers now that we have had since I have lived at the Hogar. There are 4 (including myself) living at the Hogar and 3 that live at the volunteer house a mile away that come for the mornings. We had a meeting yesterday and we are going to start doing English classes and computer classes in the afternoons. It is so nice having more volunteers to help share the load and it is nice for the kids so that they are all getting more attention. The board members for the organization are coming into town this next week and we will be having a party on Saturday followed by volunteer meetings next week. I am personally very excited to be able to talk with the board about all of my concerns with the organization and how the orphanage is ran. Hopefully we will be able to make a lot of improvements while they are in town.

As for the kids... They are doing well. I was doing exercises last night while the kids ate so I got my dinner late and went into the dinning room and everyone was done eating and Moises was cleaning. i told him I would help him with his chores if he sat with me while I ate. He came over and sat down with me and we talked our normal conversation. He asked me everyone´s name in my family and all there ages. After finishing my meal I asked him what he wanted me to do. He grinned and said I had to mop. So I mopped the dinning room which now gives me more respect for the kids and the chore they have to do. It is a large room, and a large mop, and by the time I was done I was exhausted!

Ruth, my favorite little girl who is in first grade punched another boy for teasing her and so I put her into time out for 5 minutes. I have never punished her, mostly because I have such a soft spot for her, but also because she usually behaves. Tears started rolling down her eyes and she gave me this look I cannot get out of my head, like someone killed her puppy. She hasn´t talked to my since this happened. This just happened this morning so hopefully when I get back she will be fine, but I still cannot stop thinking about the sad face she gave me for getting upset with her. I am going to be such a pushover as a mother!

I hope all is well. I miss everyone! I really really miss Frank´s cheesecakes! I am going to head back to make sure Ruth isn´t still mad at me!