Hello everyone! It’s a beautiful day in Belize. Currently it is 7:00 our time and the sun is up, the breeze is blowing and the temperature is hot. Yesterday was the famous movie day! The whole day was very chaotic and although we are not getting paid for this it has been the hardest work I have experienced. We started off the day as usual and things were going pretty smoothly. Then the afternoon rolled around and it was like a hurricane of excitement hit. The kids were bouncing off the walls. Honestly, I can’t blame them considering it was their last day before Easter break. The school began their movie “Jack and Jill” while I pulled a few students out who did not pay to watch the movie. Together, we went out to the picnic area to read. I also took Dyanara to work on her Braille and to read some.
I first read to the students and then let Dyanara practice reading on her own. Then my plans completely went to dust. The girls who were in the local pageant began practice right beside us in the picnic area playing songs and dancing their routines. This did not sit well with Dyanara. All she wanted to do was see what they were doing and it was impossible for her to focus no matter how hard we tried. After allowing her to watch the practice and dance for a few minutes she decided that she could work on her Braille a little bit. So we tried to focus while the activity was going on. Well, when we finally got adjusted to the volume of the noise the band decided to have practice beside us as well. So of course Dyanara wanted to see what was going on and there was no possible way to combat the noise of a 5 person drum line 5 feet away. So I let her take another break. When I finally got her to focus again I was met with a group of 10 girls who wanted to ‘help’, this ended up turning into even more of a distraction. I eventually lost all hope just as the movie dismissed and an entire school of screaming kids was let to roam free for about 30 minutes.
The kids were having a blast but by that time I was exhausted, actually I take that back we were ALL exhausted. The school bell rang and immediately all of the interns met in the courtyard and all at once agreed to get out of Dodge as quickly as possible. The day was a lot of fun and the kids had a blast but with any day before a major holiday it was chaos! We all headed straight back to Pedro’s, put our bikini’s on, and took a much needed nap. After the nap we had a meeting and then we headed to dinner at Caroline’s Cooking. Caroline cooked the most amazing meal for us and I honestly think it is the best meal I have had since I’ve been here. Then we all headed to a little restaurant to play trivia. It was Bailey, Kristin, Colin, Tony, and I versus Dr. C, Dr. K, Forrest, and Peter (who owns Pedro’s). It was a heated battle but eventually the Doc’s came out on top by ½ of a point…. Needless to say we will have a rematch next week at Pedro’s! Stay tuned for today’s beach day adventures!
-Sidenote: I want to apologize to anyone I havn’t gotten to speak with personally yet. The Internet is very touchy here and skype does not work on my computer. If we do happen to get a skype date planned and I don’t show up it is because the Internet wasn’t working. Just let me know if you want to plan a time to talk and I will do my best to make it happen, but no promises!
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