The Schedule

Well our internet is down in the house which was probably due to a donkey gnawing on the internet line that travels from our house to the friary down the street. The donkeys are real asses around here! So I apologize for the delay. Most of you are probably wondering what my daily schedule looks like...and most days I wonder the same thing. But tentatively our schedule is as follows...
We actually have a bell ringer who rings the bell at 4 50 each morning. The earliest I´ve been able to wake up is 5 15. AB class led by myself till 530. We have community prayer and then we leave to walk to the poor clare nuns to get to mass by 630--which is always an adventure especially since it has been raining so much here lately. The hondurans like to play a game called lets see which gringo can get stuck in the mud the deepest. Not a very fun after you play it the first time and lose a sandal in the process. The mud here is like quick sand--it looks like a dry spot and then you sink 3 ft deep. We have just enough time to wash our feet at the pila (a concrete tub outside that we use to wash clothes and towels) and grab a baleada (flour tortilla and beans sometimes with eggs...yum!) before we catch a ride with one of the kids we work with at school, Miguel. Miquel´s dad picks us up in his electric blue Ford with Pink floyd and Jesus bumper stickers. We jump in the back and I eat breakfast and dry my hair in the process--in less than 10 minutes...I´m conserving energy and time! I feel very productive by 800. Three days a week we come to CasAyuda in the mornings. CasAyuda is a school for physically, deaf and or mentally handicapped kids. It is run by the sweetest lady named Mama Nelly who with her family have founded and manage CasAyuda. They have a bread and donut machine that they sell to raise money for the school, that someone from the states donated. They have different brigades that come to the school for a week at a time throughout the year...either medical or dental; there is a physical therapy team coming as well in June. At recess we try to organize games for the kids so that they can all be involved. We are usually able to see about three kids in the morning by 1100. In the afternoon we see the children in the neighborhoods closeby. On sat. we see 3 kids at the orphanage and Sat. afternoon we play futbol better known in soccer in the U.S.ofA This will be the first year in 22 years that Honduras has qualified to go to the World Cup, held in South Africa this summer. Monday mornings we have cleaning and meetings in the house and we use the afternoon to coordinate with people from the states about the therapy program and also making cushions and benches or inserts for braces for the children we work with depending on their needs. There is a guy who suffered a spinal cord injury who we see and has an interest in carpentry and helps us make equipment. There was also Bob the builder who came down with a mission not too long ago to make equipment for the kids also. Fridays are our free day to go into town and use internet or visit with people in the neighborhood. Thanks for keeping up with me; you are all in my prayers!