This morning after a breakfast of breakfast burritos, bananas, and oranges- we headed back to the school at Duck Run. On the way there we had to stop and get some computer equipment from the Farmers Trading Center, which is a very large building with everything from food and drinks to housewares to toys and more. I kind of felt like the Farmers Trading Center was like our WalMart. Our purpose at Duck Run was to finish setting up the computer lab, which I stayed completely away from! I felt that I would be more assistance not being in the way, and playing with the kids instead. I was in all of the classes and either read to the kids, talked to them, or did crafts with them. The youngest children (equivalent to our K-1 grades) are just now learning English, so they were difficult to talk to at times. But, they were cute when they would try to keep repeating themselves louder- as if that was going to make me understand what they were saying.
We got diesel today at a local gas station- and I thought it was cool to compare the prices to what we pay in the States. Diesels was $10.19 Belize, so it would have been $5.095 per gallon US.
After we left Duck Run, we went to a local restaurant in San Ignasio. It was a really neat place where we ate outside and the food was delicious, and in very large servings- the restaurant was called Hode's. I had a quesidilla which came with cole-slaw and french-fries. Beside Hode's a few vendors were set up with things to sell us... there was a cruise ship who had just come in- so the vendors were there for the lunch hour. After we left Hode's, we had a few hours to tour San Ignasio, the second largest “city” in Belize, consisting of about 25,000 people. After returning to Hode's to meet Dwight- our bus driver- we got ice cream, which was from the local dairy- Western Dairies- the dairy that we visited yesterday.
On the way home from San Ignasio, we stopped at the Roman Catholic school that we will be at tomorrow setting up a computer lab. Now we are working on homework until dinner (fried chicken & french fries) is ready. Class is to follow dinner and then hopefully we will have an early night to bed.
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