my new watch has winnie the pooh all over it

good morning! we are on our way to lay by the beach and read until our tutoring and reading starts this afternoon. monday and tuesday went well. monday we went to Christ the King school and maria and i read a story book to standard one (like 1st/2nd grade aged kids) and they seemed to love it. we were in a little classroom with open windows and two kids in each old wooden desk. it is funny, kids are kind of the same everywhere - you can tell who the class clowns are, and the front row students who want to answer every question, and the quiet ones who pay close attention. when they want to get your attention or answer a question we would ask their hands shoot up in the air and they say "miss! miss!" it is very cute! yesterday we drove to pomona, which is the town about ten minutes inland, and read with families there. my family was stephanie (13), johnathan (11), steven (8), and abby (5) with their mother sharlotte. they were great kids, we read two books and wrote down words from the books and talked about things we remembered or what we didn't understand. abby isn't quite old enough to write well - so she drew pictures of the things she remembered. steven is very meticulous, and got out his ruler to draw lines on the blank paper he could write his words on. stephanie has beautiful handwriting and always remembered lots of words and johnathan is a wonderful artist and remembered lots of details from the book. their mother is very sweet, they live on a farm "in the bush" and the house they live in is the same one their mother was born in which i thought was kind of neat.

at night we have taken to sitting around outside and talking instead of always making the 20 minute trek to the pier at the pelican resort. the air feels so nice at night and it is less stuffy to sit outside while our rooms cool down from the day. we bought some bread and peanut butter monday in an effort to save money on lunch, but needless to say when i pulled the bread out tuesday, there were little spots that had been nibbled away and the other pieces were moldy. i suppose we will stick to eating out for lunch.

they say the rainy season starts like clockwork on june 1st, and the past three days early early in the morning it has rained pretty hard. it is kind of nice because it cools it down and the dust isn't so bad, but it also makes the air more humid and there is not as much wind.

we are off to the beach! and mom and dad don't worry i am wearing sunscreen and have even been taking vitamins every day :)

love to everyone, hill