Another awesome Saturday!

So today was great. One of the kids that Sam and I are sponsoring will be celebrating his birthday next Tuesday, so we decided to celebrate in the boys club this morning. We baked him a cake, plus made some extra cupcakes in case we ran out. The day before, we went to his house while he was at school and invited his Mom. We blew up balloons...which by the way the kids went CRAZY over...fights actually started to break out a little bit. So we brought out the cake, and sang. It was funny because we put trick candles on the cake, and so when Yohan blew them out, they automatically relit until he blew them out again.


So we have decided that the best way for our English learners to speak only English to them at all times.

We do speak Spanish when necessary, but we find that they are picking up some of what we are saying. I really love it though, because since I took a very basic Spanish class before I got her, in preparation, the boys know that they have to help me with Spanish as well.


I can speak broken words and get by some of the time, but I am nowhere near fluent...so today when I went outside three of the older boys were whispering about something...probably plotting about their crushes...so when I walked out, one of the boys says to his friends, "shhh, she speaks Spanish"! It was sooo funny, because I do not speak even enough to understand what they were saying!
After we taught our English class, we just kinda hung out with the boys a little bit, and ended up making crazy pictures...made me laugh a lot!





In the afternoon was Art class. All of the boys showed up, except for one. Liz has been having some issues lately with the Art teacher, and today pushed her over the edge with him. Long story short, we will not be working with him anymore.

Overall, today was at times, very frusterating. But when it comes down to it at the end of the day, it is always amazing and so worth it.