Beautiful Feet: November 30, 2015

First English classes in the schools. This morning was supposed to be classes in Salcoatitan and then in Juayua in the afternoon but the school in Salcoatitan had other things going on so our first classes there will be tomorrow morning. While we were expecting visitors at 9, Kelly and Nicole arrived about 8:45 to show a dress that Kelly had made for Nicole. I had made a dress in August and had some material left over and gave it to Kelly to see if she could use it for Nicole. It was fabulous. She made it without a pattern and there was just enough material to make it. She even sewed in a little room to let out when she grows. I pulled my dress out of the closet and they were actually very similar. We laughed and laughed. We are planning to drive to Sonsonate next Tuesday morning to check out fabric stores. At 9 we had our weekly meeting with Carlos, Cesar, Ricardo and Joli and spent most of the time evaluating the events we had held in Salcoatitan and Juayua since the last meeting. It was really good -they have an acrostic they use FODA which in English translates to strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and dangers. I had not expected such a thorough evaluation of what we had done with how to make the next events even better for both places. Right now we hope to have something like these once a month in each town with our next ones being near the end of December. The results we have already had from the one here have really been exciting. We ran over time this morning and since we needed to be at the school at 1:30 for our classes in Juayua we had to hurry through lunch. We got all loaded up and arrived at the school on time and were all set up and waiting by two. We had the older students first and that class was by far the larger one. It was for students 12 and older. Most of the students were girls and everyone said they knew no English and were really shy. The class went by fast and we hardly got through 2 pages of material. The second class was the younger kids with only 2 girls and 6 boys. Actually they seemed to know about as much English as the older group and were definitely less reserved and more willing to participate. After the class we walked by our new house which was just across the street. We needed to get the exact street address so that we could give it to immigration and to get the internet transferred. We also rode with the man over to a lot they owned to consider it as a possible site for the church to meet. It was really pretty but not in a real good location. Then we went to Raul and Ana's for a study. We always study on the back porch of the large house they live behind and it was really windy and the ladies were cold. The wind has really begun to blow and we have not had any rain here for several days so I guess summer has arrived.