Madrina, Turno, Posa, Informes

Okay, so I´ve got to back up a little bit as I´ve gotten a little behind in my blog writing. Let me take you back to Friday, November xx. I had the privilege of being asked to be a "madrina"/godmother for one of the pequenos graduating from talleres/workshop. His name is Julian, he´s 19-years-old and he was on my team during the Olimpiadas/olympics. Being a madrina means that I had to buy him a graduation gift (I got him a sling backpack and a funky button-up collared shirt), had to escort him across the stage to receive his diploma, and I got to sit at the graduation dinner tables and be served dinnner. We got dressed up and had a really nice night. The ceremony was followed by a ranch dance, where Julian and I danced the entire night as he tried to teach me pasos/steps to the dances. Let´s just say my body was aching the next day from all the dancing! There is a dance here in Honduras known as "la punta". It is amazing to watch and impossible to do. Basically all that moves are the cadena/hips and the culo/ass. It is my goal to achieve the punta before returning to the U.S. :) The next day I worked with my hogar and did turno with them that night. We stayed up until after 1:00 AM watching movies. I had breakfast with them on Sunday and met up with them later in the day at la posa/the pond to go swimming. The following week I spent typing up informes/reports on all my students who receive speech-language therapy. It was challenging, yet educational to write comprehensive reports all in Spanish! School ended that Friday, November 17. School does not resume until February, which means that this is essentially "summer vacation" for the kids. Throughout December and January there will be vacation courses for the kids, but we therapists will have to continue with therapy. To celebrate the completion of the school year and our informes, Jean, Monica, Jesus and I went to Tela. Read on the following blog for all the fun details!