Days 8-10

I have had a few very eventful, unforgettable days.  I have officially left my mark on El Salvador and made memories that I won't forget.

On Friday, I taught 2nd and 4th grades again.  I was told ahead of time that I would be teaching and had the night before to prepare.  In 2nd grade, I taught them the days of the week song.  Little did I know, after 45 minutes of my should-only-sing-in-the-shower-singing, I lost my voice!  Teaching English to Spanish-speaking students has challenges.  However, teaching English with no voice  to Spanish-speaking students has many more challenges. 

Later on Friday, the teacher I am assisting was supposed to teach the 3rd grade lesson.  She told me to go ahead and go to the classroom and talk to the students for about 5 minutes while she finished something.  I did not have a lesson plan and was not too sure what they were learning, however all I had to do was entertain the class for 5 minutes.  Forty minutes later, my teacher arrived to class.  I must have misunderstood her because she showed up for the last 5 minutes.  I threw together an impromptu lesson on pronunciation and action verbs.  Everything was going okay, until I decided to write on the whiteboard.  I thought I was using an Expo marker, but it turned out to be permanent!! The whiteboard in the 3rd grade classroom will forever say "Judy is washing the vegetables.", "la fecha = date", and "Friday, June 14th, 2013."  I have forever left my mark on the school in El Salvador (at least until I find a way to clean it off.)

On Saturday, I went with Mrs. Teri (also known as Hermana Teri), Teresita (her daughter), and Noelia to the mall and grocery store.  Hermana Teri and Noelia were getting haircuts so I spent time entertaining Teresita at her first trip to the salon!  After Noelia's hair cut, she and I took Teresita to Pizza Hut for lunch while Hermana Teri finished getting her hair done.  While at Pizza Hut, I was supposed to order Hermana Teri a pizza to-go.  With my lack of Spanish vocabulary, I ended up ordering her 2 pizzas to-go.  Oops!

After the mall, we headed to the supermarket so I could pick up a few groceries and more cupcake supplies.  We passed a little girl in the sea of people and she was looking at me.  After we passed her, Noelia told me that she looked at her mom and said, "That's my English teacher I told you about!"

Teresita and Noelia asleep in the car after lunch

A Father's Day Barbecue Cake!

When we got home yesterday afternoon, I decided to open up my bag of sour gummy worms and have a few.  When I was done, I folded the bag tightly and left it on the couch while I ran over to the nursery for 30 minutes.  I ended up being over there for 3 hours.  I love the babies!  When I came back from the nursery, I sat back down on the couch and started looking at my computer.  I noticed an ant crawling on my computer while I was reaching into the bag of gummy worms for another gummy.  I was so focused on the ant on my computer that I didn't realize that I had just put a gummy worm covered in ants in my mouth!!  I looked over and noticed the ants swarming all over the gummy worm bag and immediately ran to the bathroom to try to spit out what I had not consumed of the gummy worm.  I only counted 8 ants in the sink which means I must have ate about 15 ants!  Needless to say, I doubt I will be eating gummy worms again for a long time.

Today, I have spent the day in bed trying to overcome a stomach bug.  It started before the ants, so at least I know it is not from eating the ants!  We do not have school tomorrow because it is Father's Day.  El Salvador always celebrates on June 17th.  This is the first year for the country to celebrate the day with no school.  I am excited for a day off!  However, I am worried that this will not be much of an enjoyable day for the children at the orphanage.  So, we will be spending the day baking cupcakes for Teacher's Day which is this upcoming Friday!  We are going to try to make cupcakes that look like apples (pictured below) for the teachers.

the cupcakes we will ATTEMPT to make

 I will blog again after the cupcake baking and decorating with our finished product!

Today is Father's Day in the States, so Happy Father's Day to the best Daddy in the world!  Thank you for always being there for me and giving the best advice.  I hope you are enjoying your trip and I can't wait to see you when I come home in a couple of weeks!  I love you very much, Moto.

The best dad in the world!

Happy Grandad Pryor's/Papa's/Godfather(Uncle Mike)'s/Uncle Dayne's Day to everyone else!  I hope you all have enjoyed your day.  Thank you all for treating me like a princess for the past 20 years and for setting an example of how true gentlemen should act.  I'm thankful for each one of you!  Love you all!