I think we're gonna have to kill a chicken

This morning after doing several loads of laundry I came up the stairs to find a live chicken on the porch. I assumed one of the neighbors chickens had wandered over once again until I realized that the chicken was tied up on the porch. I've been wanting to have a dog as a pet here but instead we have a chicken. I asked Nadelly what the chicken was for and she said to eat. Someone had given her the chicken as a gift. I'm not a fan of chickens after nearly being attacked by a group of them out at the High's house years ago so I would rather the chicken be dead than alive. Apparently we are going to kill it tomorrow. When I asked who was going to kill it Nadelly said that me and the interns would do it. I have no desire to or knowledge of how to kill a chicken and I know one intern has experience killing chickens but I don't think she wants to kill it either. I think we will have to have one of the boys who live at the school kill it for us. I'm going to try and forget the chicken was ever alive.
This past week was a very busy week. I left on Sunday for Jarabacoa for the directors training and then the summer program training for all the teachers. I felt like I was living a life of luxury as I lived in a massive house with showers that had hot water. I almost had a little bit of culture shock going from being the only white person in town to spending the majority of my time with Americans and speaking mostly in English. It was a really good time as I got to be refreshed by he missionaries there and meet all the summer interns.
We returned to Monte Plata on Thursday and got all settled in and ready for the prep day on Friday. Friday was a long day with three hours of training and then church in the evening and then closing the night out by getting hit pretty hard in the head by a soccer ball. Thankfully today was a good time to rest and prepare more for the next week which starts the summer program.
After going through the training and prepping, I feel very blessed for the teachers I have working this summer as well as the summer interns. It's a group of people that works hard but also love to laugh and have fun. Be praying for us as we start this summer program next week. It's looking like we will be having it at church instead of at the school for the first week because the eighth grade students have to take their national exams at he school which means we cannot have other activities at the school during that time. This will definitely change how our plans work and how we manage the summer program.
We are very excited about the start of the summer program and getting the summer in general started.
I wrote this blog on Saturday and it's Sunday and we don't have Internet yet. On Sunday evening we killed the chicken. We watched it run around with it's head cut off and enjoyed a delicious meal of chicken, platanos, and lime juice. Thankfully we had some Dominican boys who were willing to kill it for us and get the feathers off and cook dinner so the girls didn't have to do any dirty work. I think some of the girls on the team that is here will think twice before eating chicken after watching the chicken die.