October 21
Woke early this AM and spent some time reading Proverbs. What a great reminder of the wisdom of God as written by Solomon. Got to school on time and it was a beautiful cool morning heading for a rather warm day. Actually what we would classify as a beautiful summer day at home. My kids are making a small clay globe to show the layers of the earth. We put the last layer to represent the crust but we used green because most of the crust is covered with vegetation. The green was partially covered with blue because much of the crust is covered with water. The colors should have been reversed but I did not have enough blue clay. Tomorrow I will try to smoothly cut a quarter of the globe out so all the colors of the cores and mantle will show and then try to mount them for display. We practiced our Stone Soup play. Then we dragged some rocks around on various surfaces with a spring scale and talked about how some of the huge rock structures in history might have been constructed. By then it was time for lunch and I was invited with a couple of others to comida by one of the parents.
The coach had some difficulty getting here from Oaxaca for gym so I got the younger group started with their warm-ups. We played a little four squares until he arrived to continue the street hockey instruction. Now the kids are about ready to play so I will just let them do that when I fill in.
I walked into town to the market after school and bought bananas, oranges and apples. I can do that pretty well now but I forgot my shopping bag again. The vender was nice enough to give me a plastic bag with a handle. When I got home I soaked the new purchases in iodine while I fixed a fruit salad of apples, cantaloupe, bananas and oranges that were here. After a light supper I set about to straighten up the apartment, do the dishes and catch up on email. There was also time for Bible reading, prayer and a couple of phone calls. It is hard to believe that my time in Mitla is past the half-way point. My planning tonight will include determining if I have enough time to do all I have planned. I also need to see if I have already acquired more food than I can eat in the next week and a day or so. It is an unbelievably good time to reevaluate one’s life choices as you sit in a foreign land by yourself with the Bible and consider paths that are possibilities for your life to follow. The possibilities are boundless but somehow at home you have little time to consider them in an unbiased manner. Well, there is much to do for tomorrow so I will close for today.