An Interesting Day

Rural electrification has come to this area with new power poles and electrical lines dotting the countryside. Many of the lines hang very low and we've been told of two people recently killed and several injured when someone riding in the back of a truck reached up to push the line out of the way. This morning on the way to school we saw a large bus caught on a low-hanging line. The bus driver was reaching out his window trying to move the electrical line up and over the bus! Very scary!!
Then we discovered that Ricardo wasn't coming to school today and we were to teach in his place! We were set up in the unused classroom and we called the students in grade by grade. Ricardo has 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades in his classroom. We worked with each grade about 40 minutes and they just played outside when not with us. It actually worked out very well and we enjoyed the smaller groups. This is our final week of teaching and each student is preparing a little biography in English to present at the end of the week. After we finished with the day's teaching it became "shoe day" at Munoces school. First Yanira distributed free shoes that had been sent from an NGO in the US. They didn't fit very well but the students seemed eager to receive them. The shoes that were too small for any students in the school were distributed for little brothers and sisters at home.
Is this your size??

Just as the canvas shoes had been distributed, a couple arrived with two large duffle bags of official school shoes that are provided by the government. They were not there to distribute the shoes but to try them on to get the correct size. The students waited patiently for their turn to try on the shoes and the sizes were duely noted. I'm not sure when the new shoes will arrive.

Then, for one more change in the day, La Tortuga went a different way home so that Yanira could pick up a couple of bunches of ganaos she had ordered. Gregorio put them in the truck as we went through Munoces.

As usual we enjoyed the company of others on the way home. This little cutie caught Warren's eye!....maybe BOTH little cuties!