7:12 pm
So we are very close to finishing the benches. All of them have a first coat of oil paint, so tomorrow we should finish them with their second coat tomorrow. It'll be really neat to get closure on that project so we can move to newer, greater things. This morning the Casa kids started school. They've been out since October for what is their "summer break" so it was great to see the kids dressed up in their uniforms and looking forward to a new start. It's crazy because most of the children and teenagers are pretty far behind in school. I know a 20 year-old, for example, who's starting fourth grade. If all goes well he'll be able to finish the year in seventh. Today while we were painting outside near the woodshop, I pulled up Obama's inauguration on CNN.com. We listened while he spoke and it was really cool to be witnessing a special part of history while painting benches right at the top of Central America. I woke up this morning thinking that everyone else was already up. I had listened to two songs that I like just to get the day started alright, so I was feeling great. I got up talking to myself in a funny voice saying things like "Woohoo, what a great day this will be," and so on. Philip, who turned out to still be in bed turned over and gave me a weird look, so I felt pretty stupid. It was really funny to me though, since Philip already makes fun of me sometimes for talking to myself. Anyway, today was a great day all in all. At one point I held Elias, a nine or ten year old boy, like a baby and he didn't want to be put down. I thought to myself, "I wonder if he's ever been held like this before," since most of the children here have had a really rough life until the point they arrived, and he's been here for at least half of his life. So there's a pretty good chance he hasn't been held like that. That was probably the most memorable part of my day.
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