Robbers or Mangos?

I was abruptly awoken the other night by a very loud BANG! In my only half awake state I believed that someone was attempting to break into the house. I quickly jumped out of bed prepared to use every fighting skill I had. As I became more awake I became conscious of something rolling down the roof and realized that the sound I had probably heard was a ripe mango falling off one of the many trees onto our metal roof. Just in case I decided to get up and take a look around. In doing so I gave Nadelly who had not yet gone to bed quite a scare. Since then I have been woken by quite a few mangos falling onto the roof. I find it pretty incredible my ability to sleep through the Sycamore earth quake but mangos falling on the roof have no problem waking me from my deep sleep.
Last Friday, they had a soccer tournament of the girls in the classes grades 4-8. There were a couple times I though someone for sure was going to sustain a major injury as I saw legs flying without control. Alas, there were no broken noses or concussions although there were a lot of tears as girls got their toes stepped on or became overheated. The games were all chosen at random so at one point the girls in fourth grade were playing those in eighth grade. Everyone called it an abuse but the little fourth graders held their own pretty well. I was hoping for a major underdog upset but the eighth graders won out.
I spend a lot of time out at the orphanage and it is just a good time as I work with Karin on writing and then find myself playing games which can range from hide and seek with he two youngest boys which means they hide and I seek to playing basketball with the older boys. After playing for a good amount of time I eat at Albas house. I have been enjoying her cooking but the other night she made platanos and chicken. It sounded great until I found out the by chicken it meant the feet and necks of various chickens. This is common here but I can't seem to convince myself that I would like to eat the foot of a chicken so I gave my pieces of chicken to the kids and just stuck with platanos. Dinner is always an adventure.
Outside of the school there is a little creek that is filled with garbage and who knows what else. When it rains, the creek become a flowing river many times flooding he street in front of the school. Its been raining a lot so the creek has been becoming a river quite often. When it becomes a river new things come in like fish and then when the river goes down the new things get stuck. Well yesterday I walked up to the office to find a bunch of kids and teachers out of their classes observing something across the street. Nadelly happened to be one of these observers so I asked her what was happening to which she responded they had caught a catfish. I thought it was funny the crowd that had been drawn just to see a catfish until I saw the massive catfish that they had caught. Just estimating I think it was somewhere between two and a half and three feet. Later on in the day they caught another one which again drew everyone out of their classrooms to watch. This one wasn't as big probably only two feet but it was still enough to draw a crowd. After returning to the office I sat in my chair which is on wheels. Next thing I knew the chair was tipping back and rolling out from under me. I gave Andreina quite a scare but once she realized I was laughing she too began to laugh. I laughed until I had tears in my eyes. Only a few passerby students saw the event but after about five minutes it seemed everyone knew as I had teachers and students walking by the office to ask if I was okay. Then this morning as I sat down in the office and I soon felt the chair tipping back, but this time I was much more prepared and was able to stabilize the chair before I fell. It's been a very fun week.