Filling "Spare" Time

Wow-I've had quite a bit of free time lately. Schedules are wierd around here because of all the stuff going on with the government we had a toque de queda (curfew) yesterday & today. Thankfully, that'll be suspended tomorrow which will open up traffic again. It's not a good thing for Cornerstone to have transportation restrictions considering they have a lot of teams/short-terms doctors coming in and out right now. We were supposed to have a little missionary conference that was going to start tomorrow but because of the political issues and insecurity of the issue of transportation, it's been cancelled. Therefore, all the students who were working hard to finish this week's work before tomorrow now find themselves with a lot of free time. I do have one student, though, whose parents want to make the most of this time (can't blame them with the way things run around here-you can be eight steps ahead and in three steps end up ten steps behind...) and she'll continue to do school for the rest of the week. Which means I will continue to do school this week. Today I worked with just her and we finished at 11am so I'm kind of expecting that to be the deal for tomorrow and Friday.

Yesterday we finished around noontime and I went back to my house for lunch. I was studying some spanish and chatting on Skype when one of my girls came in and asked me if I wanted to "hang out". This is 10yr Sammey who's just so sweet and spunky. So, she and I went to her house and played Yahtzee, watched some of Hairspray, and then walked down to the children's center (foster home). Her older sister, Sidney (14), has a horse so she let Sammey and I ride it down to the beach. AMAZING. My first time riding a horse was bareback down to the Caribbean. Woah. It was great. Definitely scary at first (and I'm incapable of getting on a horse alone) but worth it in the end.

Today after school I went back to the house, ate lunch, Skyped with Andrew, and then went to the hospital to clean glasses. Someone donated thousands of pairs of vintage glasses to Loma de Luz so they're cleaning them, checking the prescription, and entering them into a computer data base so they can be fitted and given to patients. I went in there and washed a hundred or so for an hour. Then, I came back. Skyped some MORE, and at 4pm went to the lady's bible study that was held at the Rumbaughs. The Rumbaughs are a missionary family here who are pretty much in charge of all the ministry aspects. I'm pretty sure they have some sort of study going on at their house every night. It was at their house that the Perspectives (missions study I went to Monday) was held. After the Bible study, I went to the Merritt's house. The Merritts are the couple that my home church supports and so it was cool connecting with them. They're very sweet, hospitable, pleasant people.

Now I'm back in my room. Updating people, Skyped a little MORE, and getting ready to get stuff ready for tomorrow and study some Spanish.

Pray for Honduras. Pray for the missionaries.