Friday, Oct. 23

what a day

wole up close to 8  and realized I had to meet Caroline at 8:15. Jumped out of bed and after a quick cup of coffee, went tothe baseball stadium. There she was - already picking up trash ....so we did the bushes near the old plant - about an hour - two huge bags of trash.

rushed home - showered and got the backyard ready for the first class - 3 students came - we had a good time.  It is supposed to be the adult class - maybe more will come on Monday ...

rested a bit and Les and Ihad lunch.  another student showed up thinking her class was at 10:30 when it is at 2 - took her home.  Saw Rene and Renata - they have started a second hand shop in their garage. He goes tothe states and brings things back - shoes - clothes - really, it is the only one here - so they have a good c hance of making it !!

The "boys" who are here were fishing all day - at 5 Les decided (with a little push from me) to go and see what was up ... normal time is somewhere between 3 and 4 to come home....after that, we get worried.  They were about town and ordered some food from the new taco stand. That lady is doing a brisk business.  N one can find Joauqin at home and he isn't into cooking these days. He is losing a lot of business....but I guess he got tired of it all ???? such a shame.

Well, the big get together is on our front porch. 7 guys drunk as skunks and yelling (when you drink margaritas, I think you have to speak louder to be sure everyone is hearing you !!!). I love it. Les is happy, the boys are happy, there is food. Even Gary is here and Joaquin sat and chatted for a while too.

This afternoon I had 2 more classes.  The last was the best. It is the high school group. They are smart and fast and it is a pleasure to teach them. I had the "this is in exchange for cleaning up la bocana" talk.  Just take 15 minutes out of your day .... clean up...and put a small garbage bag in your parent's cars. Little by little we will get there.

I am still very excited about the fish donation idea and am waiting to hear from the bigwigs. Please God, help me on this one.  I can foresee so many beautiful things happpening to la bocana .....