It's felt just so right having her here. I mean for 2 months I've still called it "our room" and Joe and I still call her little desk in the library "Kelley's desk". It's just how it should be. And so even though she's the 4th week of visitors (though again, I hardly consider Kelley a visitor. It's like she came back home), it's been one of the most normal weeks in a long time. We haven't done anything super out of the ordinary which is great because it's allowed us to do all of our "normal" things the way they were meant to be done aka with Kelley.
Oh wait, what am I talking about? Ok, these busy weeks are really depleting my memory. Let's start from the end of last week.
Friday was March 14 and if any of you are nerds or had a fun math teacher growing up, you would know that it was Pi Day! And since Mr. Joe is a cool math teacher, he had Pi Day festivities in his classes which of course included pie eating contests in each of his classes. This is what ensued:
The competitors from 3M. I think they were the fastest!
3H
3C
That night was the big conclusion of the Franciscan mission and they had a night of praise and worship, adoration, and prayer teams which was just straight up awesome. We had students from some of the other high schools come and join us. I have no idea how many were there total, but it was a very blessed night and a lot of good things were being stirred in the hearts of my kids. All week while they were here I just kept thanking them for coming because as a constant presence and as a teacher, it's easy for us to be white noise. So it's good for them to have a new face coming in and saying what we've been saying all year! And I told John, one of the leaders that I realize how fortunate I am that I get to be here after they leave and watch it all take root and unfold in each of my kids. And I had a whole week with Lana!!!!
I love her so much! I didn't even realize how much I needed to see her. For those who don't know, Lana was one of my roommates last year, so she's someone I'm pretty close to. And as we were saying that stupid goodbye Friday night, I just realized that I had no idea when I would see her again. It was like a goodbye at graduation! But I'm trying not to dwell on it. And I did have Kelley here to distract me, so that's good.
Saturday was just a normal lazy Saturday filled with taking a walk in the gorgeous weather and watching a movie with Kelley just like the good ol days! But Sunday we went somewhere. And if you've been a faithful blog reader, you can probably guess where we spent our Sunday afternoon.....Melchor! With our wonderful students! But instead of hanging out at the park like usual, we went one block up to the hotel that one of our student's parents' own to swim! We had been there once before so we knew where it was and all that. We had also seen the pool before so were extra excited to go swimming.
Some of the group
And of course, Kender is getting ready to do a back flip into the pool. Again. Despite my strong protests.
It was such a perfect day for swimming too because it was hot but not that unbearable heat that made walking to the border awful. Patricia, our host, even made us a cake! I have to give it to the cultures here, they know how to host people and throw a party!
So now this week has been trucking along. I actually have classes to teach now that we don't have holidays left and right and Franciscans aren't here to take my classes. Oh shucks, I suppose I do have more. So Monday was of course St. Patrick's Day, so all of us girls wore green.
So festive! And that night we went to the ranch where the Robinsons live (Robinson as in Fr. John's family). They live in the wilderness of Succotz, so not very far away. But we all just hung out and celebrated the feast in a perfectly Irish way. And Tuesday, the Brits made us all dinner! They made cottage pie (different from shepherd's pie because it uses beef, not lamb) and apple crumble with custard. And oh my goodness, it was all super delicious! They leave this weekend, so they wanted to give a little bit of a thank you to all of us and you know, we're not people to refuse food. It'll be so weird not having them around!
Well I think that's all I've got so far. Hopefully reading about some of the things I've been doing will make up for my repeated tardiness with getting these dang updates posted. Oh I do have one more picture of just us girls. We took it on Sunday after Mass because sometimes it's hard to look and feel pretty when you live in Belize and that day we all felt pretty and dang did we all look pretty!
Can you believe I get to live with these women?
So that's it! I hope you're having a happy solemnity of St. Joseph! Oh shoot, I forgot to tell you all about what Kelley and I did for Joe today! Oh well, maybe next week. But in any case, go celebrate, say a prayer to St. Joseph, and then pray for the men you know, especially all fathers.
St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.
Totus Tuus, Maria.
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