TGIF!

AHHHHH I´ve never been so happy for a Friday to come! Thank goooooooodness. It´s been a crazy long week. And hot. Everyone warned me that come March everything gets MUCH hotter (I didn´t think it was possible to be honest), and they weren´t lying. I´m dripping sweat when I´m walking to work at 6:20 in the morning, that´s how hot it is. I also got a sunburn while sitting in the shade today. And to look forward to, April is the hottest month-which should be pleasant! Teaching went really well this week, I think the heat made the kids a little more distracted than usual but they´re still a THOUSAND times better with the one on one classes...and I´m still really pleased. I´m making friends with the other volunteer there...we´re going on a trip tomorrow to a nature reserve, with boats and swimming-so I´m stoked. She had the idea of making bracelets with the kids, as an incentive to go to class...and selling them through the organization that donates all their profits to the kids, so hopefully that gets off the ground. This also means that I no longer need to BUY presents for people, I can just MAKE them! They´re really fun to make though (it takes me back to my "friendship bracelet" making days), and now that I have read all of my books about 4 or 5 times each, it´s nice to have something else to do in the evening. I think the long week came from Tuesday and Thursday, when I work all day with the babies, at the Aldea. Monday, Wednesday and Friday I work a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the afternoon (before and after teaching), but Tuesday and Thursday it´s ten hours of diaper changing, bottle feeding fun. It is fun normally, but this week there were less teachers than normal, WAY more kids than normal...and all the kids with weird bonds to the teachers too. For example, there´s one girl that goes from ear pounding wailing to stunned silence when a certain one of the teachers finally picks her up. There´s three kids that are pretty content most of the time, as long as I´m only paying attention to them. As soon as I leave the room or stand up, OIY. Babies really can cry quite loud. I´m not sure I´m even doing the insanity justice so I´m just going to leave it at that.
So it was a hot/dirty/hard/long week but I seem to recall myself saying that that was exactly what I wanted out of this experience, therefore I´m happy. Jake comes in a week which also is going to be great. I´m ready to load him up with all that is Nicaragua. Adios!