A water heater and men with machete's!

Approximately 50% of Honduran men carry a machete.
Approximately 100% of Hondurans try to impress you/hit on you/ strike up a conversation with you with their single word, or phrase of english. The Humour comes in when it is not just your classic "hello" or "goodbye" that they know, but something a bit more interesting. The hilarity ensues when it is a man with a machete. I think I did the world's biggest double take when a toothless old, machete weilding Honduran walked past me and gave me the nod and "sup." I was like: "sup dawg....what!?...umm.....ola amigo?"

Also, We made a discovery in our house! (Hence the momentous blog entry!). We found out that Alex's shower (which doesn't work) has a water heater atteched to it. So, as I write this, Nathan (an engineering graduate) is rewiring the heater for Harardo's shower (the only shower...cough....hose in the wall that works)...so we might have warm showers soon! This is epic. This might mean that I might shower more! and then I won't smell bad! and then I'll make friends!...Just kidding, I don't smell that bad...well...people talk to me.

I'm finding that I'm getting more attached to teaching these grade 3's. This has good and bad results. Good: I really enjoy teaching, and I love the kids. Bad: If the slower kids are struggling with a concept, I get more and more stressed/tired out when they continue to be totally apathetic about putting some sort of effort in. Gosh, I feel sorry for some of my math teachers from back in the day...the other bad part is that I'm realizing how much I'm going to miss them all when I have to leave. I only have 4 weeks of teaching left! But exams are done, make up exams are done, and this weekend was the busiest weekend yet! REPORTS!! Luckily I got nice and sick so i couldn't go out anyways, but the brainless drudgery of compiling reports is time consuming and BORING. Exams/Make up exams went pretty well...except for Darwin, who despite 2 weeks of constant review, and 1 week of make up review, managed to fail every exam. DANG. And there were a couple others that decided not to put any effort into certain subjects. I mean, I've gotta be honest, i agree with Darwin: studying is boring, hanging out with friends is fun...but the thing is I WENT OVER EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOING TO BE ON THE EXAM FOR TWO WEEKS STAIGHT! ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS LISTEN AND WRITE IT DOWN ONCE!!!!...gosh golly gee. so there are a couple of parents who aren't going to be too pleased when they read the reports, to say the least. I've already had to deal with a lifetime worth of angry Honduran parents.

Have I actually never mentioned "Mr. Sean" on this blog? Remind me to do that next post.

So I'm definitely learning about patience, people, love, teaching, and a lot of spanish! Thankyou (to whoever is reading this) for your support, comments (I read them all), prayers and thoughts! It's all very encouraging.

Peace.

PS - for those Boys Camp representin' peeps: I'm planning on implementing a weekly "crazy skit" (Ben Stevenson style) in my class. This friday is the trial run. Also, Cofradia Ultimate hopefully starts tomorrow.