Greetings, everyone!
Today's video: a surprise morning sneak-attack serenade, for Jimena's birthday! It is the tradition for the people from our church to get up really early and serenade the birthday person (notice Jimena inside, just waking up!) and then go inside for a birthday breakfast. Notice also Matt, who doesn't know the words to the song, but is doing a good job of faking it.
I recently attended a Toma de Nombre ceremony, also for Jimena. It's part of the graduation celebrations in a Bolivian school - the grad class chooses a spokesperson or sponsor to represent their class, and they choose a theme for their year. Since Bolivian schools finish in December, they still have half a year to go, but this is part of how they graduate. It was really fun! Jimena definitely had the most international group of supporters - Andreia from Brazil, me from Canada, and Bianca from Germany!
On the tutoring front, things are going very well with Elisa. We just finished her math module for the year, about a month ahead of schedule! To celebrate, we devised the following celebration: we extended our "reading out loud" part of the day to a whole hour, and made it into a game. I brought a bunch of gummy bears, and we divided them into two bowls. Anytime Elisa skipped a word, I took and ate one of her bears. Anytime she pronounced a hard word perfectly, she took and ate one of mine. Needless to say, by the end of our hour, I had practically no bears left, and her bowl was full to overflowing.
Prayer request: please please PLEASE pray that I can figure out how to get rid of the bugs in my bed. Every night I wake up itching and it is driving me crazy. Multiple sheet-washings and vacuumings and mattress-in-the-sun sessions are not seeming to help.
Love to everyone!!
Rachael
3 comments:
oh man. seriously? bed bugs??? not gonna lie...glad that came around AFTER i left. haha. but really...that is awful. maybe you should just burn everything. i've heard that's a good strategy. and i'm sad i never got to participate in the birthday tradition. ah well. tell jimena she looked hot on her graduation. :)
Hey, try lavender oil for bed bugs. I've heard it works. (seemed to when I was in Guatemala)
Sharon
False alarm!!
Turns out they weren't Bed Bugs, just bugs in my bed. Probably spiders or something. The theory is that they were lured into my room because I keep it so warm with my little heater. Now my heater has been taken away and cold is my bedfellow...but I'd rather sleep with cold than with bugs!!
Things are looking up.
Thanks for the good advice, Sharon, and Katie, I told Jimena that she looked hot :)
Rachael
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