Evelyn and Ingrid are two of three sisters of one family in Club Glow. We took an adventurous bike ride the last week of school. Ingrid especially is a gifted child with leadership abilities and communication skills. She always has a spark in her eye. She is the leader of the girls' tenacious and dogged knocking on our door at any hour to visit us. I'm grateful one person likes us enough to visit!
Ruth, my former host mom, and Silas, my prized pupil. He has made phenomenal strides in his language learning; he has also been one of the primary students responsible for my understanding of the best methods of teaching Spanish speakers who lack formal education.
The promised Internet Cafe has become a reality this spring. The youth group continues to manage its use on their own.
Late in the school year the girls club has enjoyed a wealth of enriching activities outside of school, visiting my house, painting, learning about HIV/AIDS, playing boardgames, and discussing stereotypes and gender. I was very proud the day the girls began to ask questions of the larger world and were interested in learning about places on the map I have of Central America. Regrettably, the girls who were selected to participate in camp this summer never gained the permission of their parents, mostly due to the notion that a trip to Belmopan (in tiny Belize) is too far from home. Que lastima!
Our friend Yin from China began to visit the house for regular English lessons as well. He helped me learn the appropriate way to show Chinese speakers how to form the sounds of the English letters and how to remember them in relation to the sounds which are familiar to their mouths. We spent hours seemingly yelling in each other's faces and peering at the settings of each other's mouths in order to learn. 
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