Christmas Activities

This week has been busy with lots of Christmas activities-- Monday, my Bible Study group went caroling to some people from school. It was a bit strange to be going caroling when it was 81 degrees, but it made it a bit more enjoyable with the warmer weather! Tuesday was the elementary music program, and I stayed at school until the performance. The kids did a great job, as well as my roommate Kyla who had the 1st-3rd graders. Last night my aide Everg invited me over to her house for a meal-- it was an egg dish, served with yuca and avocado. It was so good!

Her mom, who was visiting from New York, and a friend of her mom's were also there. Neither of them spoke English, so I was able to practice my "broken" Spanish! --Though I get a bit flustered when I try to remember the words to say. It was fun to be able to hear them talk in Spanish-- I was able to understand maybe 25-50%ish of what they were talking about-- Surprisingly I don't get to hear people talk in Spanish a lot here. I hear English all day at school, and then go home to my English speaking roommates/friends. If I go out to the stores, sometimes I use Spanish, but it's not an every day occurrence. 

A random Nebraska connection-- one of the teacher's here, her parent's are visiting and they grew up in Nebraska! (Western, NE I think) They also have some family I think that are still in Omaha. They moved to New York 50 years ago, but it was fun to be able to talk about towns that I know about!

Tonight we are celebrating a friend's birthday, and then tomorrow is our last day of school before Christmas break-- we have a half day tomorrow. :-)