Thursday morning Fernando and I did a few errands. One of my priorities was to get to the rum factory, for a visit, and to buy some of their local rum. We had a good visit. Here we are as we prepare to leave.

From there we went to the clinic. I weighed myself, good news, it looks like I have lost 4 pounds!  And to encourage that, I walked the remainder of the trip back to the lodge, about 20 minutes.  Yesterday was another 10000 plus steps day.

After lunch we went to the library for our afternoon.  While Fernando worked with the music students the rest of us did our reading time. I went to a few of the older kids to read with them. An advantage to them is I bring my little,portable fan and aim it between us, so they get that benefit. For the most part, they can decipher and pronounce words, but they read VERY fast. Punctuation is usually ignored. I frequently remind them, punto, parede. Period. Stop. Breathe.

I don’t have any pictures of this activity since I was doing the reading. I will check to see if Fernando snuck any shots.

Then we resumed our book making activities. There were several children who were not there the previous day, they didn’t actually get the whole set of instructions. It might now have mattered for these three very little girls, but they did make books!

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