May 28

Hello again! Today was a crazy day. We spent the morning preparing an English lesson to teach the boys at the orphanage. We also worked on our presentation for the hygiene conference in monsefu on Friday and I worked on some sketches for the murals. I am really excited for this project. I hope it works out the way I am envisioning! Teaching English is a lot harder than I thought it would be. These boys know next to nothing in English, so all we got to today in an hour was good morning, afternoon, and evening, what is your name, how old are you, and numbers 1-12 (which included all their ages). It was really hard. I think next time we will just do vocabulary words. Something simple like fruits and vegetables or colors or something. They are all really awesome though, the little boys are. After struggling with the chalkboard and repeating those phrases over and over again, we played escondidas again. They had to count in English to practice the numbers we taught them. We ended up making paper airplanes. Not sure how that happened! I really love them all and I am sad because I realized that I don't have very long with them.
Later we were invited to go to dinner at a really fancy restaurant with some government official we have been working with to start up projects. It was so much food, but it was sooo good. It was nice to eat and not worry about what I was possibly putting into myself. I did try blood sausage...it was nasty. But I did try it!
Anyways, that is all I have to report for today! Love you!
Amber