Rain pops out of no where in the afternoons here! It was a bright sunshine day and then BAM rain. I was in the truck on my way to one of the neighboring towns called Sabana Cruz for Magdalenas (high school girls youth group) and it just started to pour. The people in the back got SOAKED. I noticed something different about rain here. As kids in the US, we either run outside to play in the rain with our boots and coats on or we get yelled at by our parents to stay inside. Here, rain = a shower. For people in the campos, and even in Banica, who do not have a shower (bucket showers) the rain means a chance to shower. You pass so many kids out in the streets in flip flops and tee shirts and shorts using the rain as a shower. It cracks me up! And they love it!
Sadly, the rain means that fewer girls make it to the youth group because it is hard to travel the dirt roads when they become mud. On a brighter note it was a sun filled day in Hato Viejo and teaching there this morning went so well. I will try and add a photo to this blog post so that you can see some of my students in my older classes. If Jimena and Issac are reading this - I have some of your old students and they are brilliant and so helpful!
Off to finish up tomorrows lesson plans for the Colegio :) hang in there everyone and keep smiling!
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