One week more.

Today on the bus ride to the pool the girls were singing a song "perfectamente" by a singer Miranda and now its stuck in my head. I am going to have to find it.
Today is Guatemala's dia de los padres, or father's day. While mother's day was HUGE at the project, fathers day was relativly small. This has to do with the fact many of the students don't have fathers around. Whenever we did activities like making presents or cards for fathers we just told the kids to make it for a father figure, uncle, male cousin, padrino, older brother, or someone that they want to show appreciation for.
At the project several of the teachers and a handful of volunteers are fathers so we celebrated them during a meeting at lunch today. At the meeting they reviewed measures that have been taken to improve the project since March with regards to security, communication, expectations, etc. Some of this including putting the armed guard at the entrance, cameras in the office, a phone in each room, and provding the volunteers with transportation.
This is my last week. I can not believe it. I need to find some sort of going away present to give to the kids.... hmmm.... (the afternoon class hinted at wanting cake or icecream and I think I'll have to find a way to arrange that.)
Fortunatly the volunteer who will be replacing me (waa.. but yay for her...) has come already. This is really good because when I told the kids that it was my last week some of them felt like i was abandoning them. I teased them saying that they were going to forget all about me with the new volunteer Vivian from Florida and have so much fun with her:-)
Yesterday, unfortunatly I was a tad bit underthe weather. I got up got dressed, ate breakfest, and then went back to bed until 3pm, at which pointe my host mother came in and was worried because she didn't know i was home. I had some tea, went back to bed until dinner, then went back to bed until 6 this morning. While I am not 100% better, I am mucho mejor!!! The change of diet affects all the volunteers at one point or another, some more frequently than others. Luckily, I have been good thus far. I think a full days rest did me well.
I want to make the most of my last week in Guate Guate!!
At dinner it is funny because here they say buen provecho (kind of like bon appetite) AFTER eating, where as in Puerto Rico everyone always says it before. It still throws me off.

One unfortunate bit of news: one girl in my morning class has had to drop out of the project since I have been here because she is the oldest in her family and her mother is now very sick with hepatitis (I am not sure which form). We all hope that we can find a way to get her back in school and back in the project. It's t0ugh.

Also the post below I wrote last week but the internet was acting strange and didn't let me post it (atleast it saved my draft). Sorry so late.
Hope everyone is well and enjoying the almost technically summer!
Love you!