Yesterday I started tutoring Fernando! He's 14 and has never gone to school. He lives with his older brother and washes windows at the stop light to earn money. He is very excited about the prospect of learning to read and potentially going to school sometime in the near future. He's a little self-conscious of the fact he can't read and doesn't want the other boys at the center (which now has a name...Peter Project) to know so I was a little unsure of how he would do. But we met at the center an hour before the other boys came yesterday and he did awesome. We worked on writing his name and identifying all the letters and sounds in his name and ended with making his name out of play-dough. I'm glad all those Early Childhood Education classes can come in use all the way in Honduras! It's our Monday plan now and I'm excited to see how much he's going to grow and would love to see him in school sometime soon!
After tutoring Fernando in the morning I spent yesterday afternoon going to several government buildings with C from Puerta de Esperanza supposedly finishing ALL the necessary permissions needed from the government to open the used clothing store. But this is Honduras, nothing is that simple, and so maybe today it will all be finished?
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