~maestra casa~

for the past few days we've been staying in the two-bedroom, two-bath, shared-kitchen, double-occupancy cabin.  which is pretty dang sweet.  a mama from austin, tx with 4 kids was staying in the teacher's cabin that we moved into today.  it is a great spot for us and definitely feels more like home.  Amara even has a little play kitchen here.

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Teresa just came by and asked us if we like tamales (yes!) and said a local family that makes them came by.   about an hour ago i was asked the couple that was sharing the double cabin with us (Jake and Akua... both super cool and really great with Amara) if they'd had any seafood since they'd been here.  10 minutes later i heard a motor scooter engine that sounded like a chainsaw.  Akua came to our cabin and said "there's a guy here that's selling mahi mahi and tuna".  amazing.  ask and you shall receive, i guess.  yesterday another guy came by selling bread.  it's real charming that the vendors come here... and a really good business move- it's not super easy to get to town.  so we're set up on the food front and the chocolate literally just got delivered as i was typing.

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i have been planning out what i'm going to do with the kids.  so far on the list of ideas are:  making felt balls and using hibiscus as a natural dye (the flowers are abundant here), making animals and dolls from palm leaves, a lot of singing songs, storytelling, puppet shows, and painting.  i'm trying to embrace this incredible natural beauty that we are surrounded by and fully integrate it into lesson planning.

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today we played with Amara in some tide pools, ate some fresh coconut, and got set up in our new space.  this morning Teresa made me a delicioso coffee drink and Amara got a little bang trim.  simple pleasures abound.  here are some snapshots of our new space...