the beat goes on

Tomorrow will complete the first week back in school for the girls. It´s weird to think that they just had their big summer vacation. I am starting to see the season change. The heavy rain is starting to fade woohoo! The mornings have been very warm and sunny and then around early evening it starts to get icy cold. But I am enjoying both extremes over rain...for now.

Things have been going pretty goooood here. I´m still on the 8am-4:30pm schedule but lately I´ve been spending some more time at the bakery where Meghan works. I´ve been hanging out there a good couple of hours a day. Today I snuck in to the kitchen while the guys were making empenaditas for Semana Santa...the dough kept sticking to the rolling pin and driving me crazy! But I learned some and got to enjoy hanging out with the bakery crew.

The girls back in school means that I get to walk with those who go to colegio at Chachaqomayoc. This year there are 17 girls that go in the afternoon so we make for a pretty good size mob. On Monday we ran into some marchers in the street for Dia de la Mujer. They were all chanting. The group of 17 girls looked up at me and Nancy started chanting, ¨Viva la mami Tasi.¨ Soon they all joined in...it was a little awkward haha. I felt like Oprah.

I have some more to write about but my afternoon workshop is supposed to start soon. I hope you are all doing well and enjoying spring! Allimpúnchai katchu (Have a beautiful day).

The picture is of (from left to right) Yhoni, Yanet, Reina, and Bety who are in my English/computer workshop in the afternoon.