it was good to hear from you. glad you had a nice time at scott's. i have a little too much time
on my hands, but somehow i manage to fill my day. the bishop was rehired yesterday and is
very much releaved. i think i will olreschedule my flight, or at least try to. i just don't know when.
gloria should be having her baby within the next two weeks. she sort of acts like she wants me
here. so i hope she has the baby soon.
went to visit tom's grave today. i took Frank with me. He lives with ritxa and i have been helping
him with school, about $30 every two months. It's been doable. i was thinking that maybe i had
cried all my tears, but not so. Frank told me that his name and the dates where already printed
on the crypt, so i knew i wouldn't have to worry about a sign. when i got there it looked really
nice. and the tears came. seeing it in writing somehow made it all more real. they had put a
marble piece over the entire front and the name was etched into the marble. there was a really
pretty vase already attached. i arranged some white silk flowers with a small american flag and a
small honduran flag. it looked nice. i can't remember how much it was to bury him there, but
i remember that lisa and i thought it was way cheap¡ everyone here keeps talking about how
expensive this cemetery is. no one from around here get's buried there except really rich or
important people. tom would be pleased about that.
i got back on thanksgiving day and the next morning i was out in the 'hood'' and found out
that ritza's husband had died in the night of cirrhosis of the liver. the funeral was the next day
which was sunday and monday at 6:30 a.m. she had to be back at work. she is over the
workers who clean the streets. they all report to her and she also collects the money and
passes out wads of toilet paper to people who use the public bathrooms there in the center
of town. unbelievable. i attended the 8;00 am mass or funeral service for him. i can't believe
how rediculous the father looks in his purple robe. i wanted to laugh. they mentioned the name
hy hiscarlos whitaker twice during the service. the first time was when he read off the names of other
people who had died this past year, and at the end i never did find out why they read his name.
don't know what you were referring to when you talked about them looking unkempt with spots on
their clothes. the bishop and his wife are a very handsome couple and always impeccably dressed.
i can''t get over how much cleaner their house is than henry and gladys in potrerillos. thank goodness.
maybe you were referring to someone else.
i got a phone call from bralin's mom. they went to the first group activity where 40 deaf teenagers
attended. in february , when school starts up again, he will be attending classes. she said he really
didn't understand anything or not much because they signed so fast. but she said there were some
cute girls and they were sure to notice him. at least maybe he sees a window where he possibly
could have friends and relationships. it sounds like he is going to have to have a little one on one to
even be able to begin to sign with them. i couldn't understand everything she told me but oto, from
mentors, speaks good english and spanish so he will be our intermediary.
i was going to do my blog tonight but someone else needs to use the computer. that's all for now.
please forward to mom and the girls.
love, bonnie
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