So it's been a while! My apologies for the delay, but life has suddenly become very busy down here! This week is exam week, so I've been scrounging to figure out how i can prepare the grade 3's for the exams, and what I should even put on a bunch of exams for kids that range from being basically bilingual, to some kids that make me doubt whether anything I've said in these three weeks has been understood....So I've had a lot of preparing, assigning homework, and marking to do to keep me busy, that's for sure.
We also have 11 new volunteers here! CRAZY! Nathan, our new housemate, arrived last week, and he's gonna be here until the end of the year, and on friday, 10 British volunteers walked through the front gate of the school during last period (which made it excessively hard to keep the attention of the kids - especially the boys, because 9 of those 10 were female). Henry got up on his chair and exclaimed (in a thick spanish accent) "MISS!! MISS, I LOVE YOU!"...to which I had to try desperately not to laugh, while explaining that he didn't actually love any of them...but long story short, we've got reinforcements!
As for trying new things, I've now been in a chicken bus (an expired school bus from the states that gets driven down to central america to be used to carry as many passengers as they can hold from village to village), a village taxi (a three wheeled contraption that stalls...a lot), and a highway taxi (a four wheeled contraption, with a driver that thinks he is James Bond). And I've been really enjoying going to the market on sundays, eating Baleyadas and Pastolidos...and today i went to one of the churches in the village with Melanie, which was quite interesting and cool.
This weekend we also went to El Cajon, which is a really cool part of Honduras where Harardo used to teach...we got to stay there for free and one of Harardo's friends took us on a tour of the Dam there (which supplies 30% of Honduras with its power - IT"S HUGE). It was a fun weekend!
There are pictures below, hope you enjoy!
peace.
-Tim
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