La dia de Madre

Today started off like every other day. We got up and got ready for the day and had breakfast and did our devotions. After that, we started to put together some English lessons for the day, and we taught English before lunch instead of after like usual. The English lessons are coming along fairly well. They are beginning to master and remember things. Fany learned her alphabet. We are also teaching the cook and the wait staff. After the English lesson, we ate lunch and then we got ready and went to the music school. They were having a special concert to celebrate Mother's Day, and so we went and listened to them play. We had a great time. There was a boy who got up and recited some poems and at one point he came down and was talking to us and saying things like "Oh the Americans are so beautiful. We love them." It was pretty funny.

The music school is traveling some where on Sunday, and they invited us to go with them, and I think that we will go. The only thing is that we have to leave at 6:30 in the morning. And that's not really my cup of tea. But we'll see how it all works out. When we were at the music school, we saw all of the murals that the pen pals did--they were hung all over the walls. Also hanging on the walls, was the photos that Ted and the others gave them. It was cool seeing them hanging there after we had seen them recieving them. Also, one thing that cracked me up was that they had a 'Vote Ted Alexander for Mayor' sign. (For those of you who don't know, the Mayor is one of the people that we have been working closely with to be able to come here to Jinotega.)

After the concert we came back to the hotel with Amada. We were getting ready to eat dinner, but than Fany took us to a small coffee shop nearby and bought us a drink and a pastry. We had a nice conversation over coffee and then returned to the hotel.

Tomorrow, we will continue having English lessons here at the hotel, and we are going to sit down and start planning out days to teach English over at Shalom. Tomorrow evening, we are going to go to the English class that Amada teaches and give her students a chance to speak with native speakers.

Not much else going on here. Please pray for us.