Day 23 Tuesday

Strike news:

Once again, as a couple of hours ago we have been promised that the strike will end on Thursday.  I have decided that I will get excited when I am on the airplane and its pointing north.  I feel like I am back in the Stone Age with the 3^rd world politics.

 

Today:

Sorry I haven’t added any more pictures to the sight but everyday that I head out it looks like rain.  So let’s see what tomorrow brings.

The kids had their English teacher come over and help B with his English and Spanish and L with understanding her numbers and letters.  The English teacher was impressed with all the pieces of paper I put up around the hotel room (telling B and L what it is in English).

Today we went to the park for a few hours after their English lessons.  At this park there is a slide, monkey bars, and swings.  It was big time for them. B and L had a great time.  They ran around like they were at a theme park.  But in the end B did his usually saying,  “La casa”.

But to his surprise we didn’t go home we went to the mall again, which is about a 10-15 min walk.  We had some snacks and then did some grocery shopping.  We bought the important stuff, chips, peanut butter, bread, jelly, crackers, candy, and juice.    We returned to the hotel.

We were going to go somewhere different tonight to eat but a tinker bell show came on and L gave me that look that she really wanted to watch it.  So we did.  By the time the show was over it was dark out and the safest place to go to is McDonalds which is right around the corner.  Uggg, L made her usual mess (this time spilling her orange soda which they call juice) at McDonalds.  The neat part for me was that there was a lot of middle school (I believe) kids in McDonalds and it was neat to see how different they are than American middle school kids. 

On a side note, I really miss my wife and boys at home.  I can’t wait to see them soon.

 

John