Saturday, September 11, 2010
Dios les bendiga!
Friday, June 4, 2010
Escuela, Mangos, Niños, y Libros
Today is the last day of school! It's been a good year and all the kids I've worked with have worked really hard and put in a good effort. As I could've predicted, the last one standing is Michaila. While all others have been wooed by the fancies of summer break, Michaila has pulled through, working a full week after everyone else was finished! Both of us are very relieved to be in the final hours of this year... and approaching the beauty of summer freedom!
Friday, May 28, 2010
Asi es la Vida
Wow, a whole month (on the dot) since my last post! It has been a crazy May. The week that we got back from Tegucigalpa I consumed myself with preparing an ESL lesson at the bilingual school (conjugating verbs… yikes!).
ESL classes at the bilingual school ended last Friday. I think the kids and I learned a lot this year. I'm especially proud of those from the Children's Center, they really shined in the classroom and some of them throughout the course were very persistent in asking for help and wanting to study. We had a big pool party at the Mckenney's to celebrate the last class, it was good times.
I've had an exciting little health era. I started getting worried about my blood because I kept getting big, ugly bruises. Thankfully, when I went to the hospital to get it checked, I found out that not only is my blood fine but I'm no longer anemic! I also discovered a few weeks ago that I had scabies. It was kind of going around but thankfully it's easy to treat and I managed to get rid of it before it got too irritating. And, recently, on the soccer field, I broke my toe! So… it's been interesting. I'm definitely bummed about the toe; please pray it will heal quickly. I'd like to be able to play at least one more game before I go!
Sammey's birthday was last week. We celebrated with a girl's party at her house including DDR, makeovers, and the yummiest peanut butter/chocolate cake I've ever had in my life! (Props Sydney!)
Last weekend 4 of us went to the Water Jungle. The Water Jungle is basically a Honduran water park and it's very nice! Big slides, tubes, wave pool, the works! It was a good time. And, we got picked up from the Water Jungle by a caravan (okay, fine, there were only two… but one was PACKED!) of Land Cruisers to go the Carnival in La Ceiba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ceiba_Carnival). The Carnival celebrates the patron saint of La Ceiba and was definitely a cultural experience not to be missed by someone whose only glimpse into La Ceiba is the occasional grocery store runs and, even less common, overnight stays (in other words, me). The modern La Ceiba shows its true cultural colors in the roadside stands, live music, proud Hondurans, dancers, and wealth of gringos.
Louis is leaving today and will be missed by his Staff Housing family. We had a BIG staff housing (and co.) dinner last night. I made enough potatoes for about 23 people, enough green beans for about 10, and enough Jamaica for… well NOT enough for 14 apparently! (You would think 3 pitchers would be sufficient…) Daron made delicious steaks, Estelle & Julia contributed yummy pizza bread and a beautiful salad, Joelle brought broccoli cooked to perfection, Kristel made homemade bread better than Panera, and Christine made delicious homemade brownies! (Man, I hope I didn't forget anyone.) Anyhow, it was a feast. And tonight we have plans to maybe go into Ceiba together to drop him off and perhaps stay the night. The circus is in La Ceiba right now and I'd really like to go check it out. However, I've heard rumors of people wanting to go white water rafting tomorrow… we shall see! I'm also planning on going to Rio Coco this afternoon after school with the Children's Center, I hope that happens. Sam (has been working at the Children's Center for about 2 months now… from England) is leaving on Monday so it would be an exciting last hurrah!
Last thing- I have to give props to Sammey for her improvement in spelling this year. She took a spelling test 2 days ago and got a 95% on her first try! When I first got here Sammey had to take her spelling test about 4 times and still ended up with some wrong... I'm proud of her hard work and vast improvement. Good job, Sam!
And, Until next time…