TACOS!

We had tacos for dinner!

This morning Suzanne and I went to Pick and Pay and I got some more food.

I finished What is the What, and started Into the Wild, which is really good so far. I'm only 40 pages in. I've spent almost all my free time reading. It's great.

I have also been waking up every morning around 9, sometimes 10.......sometimes 11am. But usually just 9ish.

Today at the center the same little three year old Mooty was totally attached to me like a barnacle. Whenever I put her down she would cry. She fell asleep on me, again.

Rodney and I spent some time reading again today. He got through Pup and Pop 1, 2, and 3. He's definitely improving. Starting Monday I will be at the center in the morning as well, to tutor Rodney, and to do "supervised play" for the kids who have dropped out of school and just hang around the center ALL DAY. Most of the kids who do this are kindergarten drop outs. RuRu just walked out of kindergarten one day because he just didn't want to go.

I took a lot of great pictures today. I really will get them posted soon, I promise. Maybe tomorrow night.

This morning MB went to a school far away to enroll Morris (the kid who got in a huge fight with Daniel my first day, the kid who is banned from the center and the kid that MB swore she would never pay his school fees for) in the hopes that he would get off the streets all day, not blame her for the way his life would turn out if he doesn't finish school, and because it's far enough away that she is hoping that he won't even be able to get to the center after school. They are going to enroll him in a seventh grade class. For his age, he should be a sophomore, and he dropped out in the middle of fifth grade, so basically, in my opinion, there is no way he is going to pass seventh grade.

At the end of the day MB had me take Morris's picture for his passport/school picture.

This Sunday is pool day. My birthday is Feb. 2nd, Feb 3rd is the UNAM soccer auction where MB is going to try and sell some of the really big shoes I brought with me here, and some jerseys. Rodney starts school on the 4th, Meroldi goes to the dentist with MB on the 5th to get her chipped teeth fixed (she had an accident at the pool), and that same day a new volunteer, Bianca, is coming from Germany. All these Germans! It's CRAZY! Then a guy from Canada, Mark, arrives on the 7th, and MB leaves for Botswana. She is visiting her friend Barbara until the 11th. Then when she comes back, she will be gone 8am-3pm from the 12th to the 14th for a teaching workshop for some kindergarten teachers to learn new games and methods. While she is absent at the center, we will all be in charge of keeping things in order. This includes soccer on Saturdays. GOD HELP US. Suzanne leaves on the 12th. Kiersten turns 23 of the 17th, and either that week or the following week Ilga, Kirsten, and I are going to maybe take our Etosha trip. The 24th is pool day, and March 1-2 we may be taking 60 kids to Swakopmund! That will work out perfectly, because I will get to see the dunes and the coast, and be back Sunday afternoon. Then I come back home on the 3rd. Time is flying! And there is so much going on!

SO. That's my schedule. Besides that, I'm doing well. It's very hot here every day. I have luckily managed to completely avoid sunburn or tanning. I miss all you guys! I'm normally on AIM any time between 9pm-12am every day. IM me!

xoxo

:)