April 9, 2013
Good Evening,

This was quite a busy day beginning with devotional in the courtyard with the students followed by a hardy breakfast of scambled eggs seasoned with bell pepper and onions along with a side of refried beans and VERY bold Honduran coffee.

After morning hugs from many of the children, work was continued adding primer to the walls of the director's new office. While that paint was drying, Raul ask us to begin converting another small adobe building into the new Psychology classroom. This entailed cleaning the room out, caulking all the holes in the walls, then adding primer to the walls. Harold found an unusual crack that had developed in one of the walls and proceeded to probe it in an effort to clear it of excess debris. By the time we looked around again to see how he was doing, it had developed into a 3 inch wide, 6 foot long crevass. No harm was really done, but this put a halt in the operation until it could be pastered over.

The afternoon project was teaching the children about Noah and the Ark. Much of this was directed by Ann Croft with help from Debbie Clifton, Anna Cash and others. At the end, the children had completed posting pairs of animals on the large poster of the Ark that we brought from Orlando and they did a fantastic job (see the photo).

Barbara was asked to conduct a group counceling exercise with some of the children with identified special needs at the request of Claudia with the school psychologist observing.

After a busy day, we set up for Jenga and other games with many of the children until 7:00 p.m. followed by our nightly group meeting to recap the highlights and thoughts from the day's experience. Finally, it was off to the computer lab for many of us and then off to get some needed rest.

Dave J

          

                                                  Debbie working with her students
                                                                 at the recorders.

                                                                                

                                                                                  

 

 

Tim sharing time with students

at the keyboard

 

Students practicing on their own ...

 

Ann directing Noah's Ark with special

help from student

 

Noah's Ark project poster with animals

added by the students

 

Barbara in session with

special needs students and

attending personnel

 

 

 

I tried to tell Bill to leave the crack

in the wall alone!