Blogs from Central, Honduras, Central America Caribbean - page 10

This past week flew by so fast, I felt like I couldn't catch up. It is now Monday and I haven't written here in a whole week, I believe. Last week was awesome! Honduras played their first game and so of course I went out. On a school night. Never a good idea. We all went out to Sangria's and they had tables and even bleachers set up with a big screen t.v. We ordered beer and nachos and basically, we watched Honduras lose 2-0. It was a completely different experience watching a soccer game here instead of back home. Everybody was at the bar and they were cheering and booing and I felt anxious the whole time. It was a good game. The Honduran goalie made quite a few good saves, but just not enough. ... read more

The past few weeks I have simply been enjoying IT. My classes are going well and when they don't go so well, the stress doesn't follow me home. Other than the hot weather everything is going really great. Karina and I are still chugging away at our wedding plans and she has been on the ball. Speaking of chugging, I have really gotten into milk. It's pretty awesome. Karina organized and ordered all the invites and I was able to get some musicians interested in playing at the reception. I'm pretty excited about the whole thing, it will be interesting. My family will be mixing with Karina's for the first time in the history of the universe. The two families are similar in so many ways, it will be fun to see how the languages come ... read more

So far, I am having an awesome week. One of the best weeks since I arrived here. School has been great all week and the kids have been amazing also. Although, it is crazy right now because we are doing half partials, in other words getting our half term report cards ready for Friday. So everyone is busy gathering grades and they are quite busily going at their calculators these days, including me. I was rather nervous because I was wondering what the kids grades would look like compared to their last term and actually I am quite impressed. I know it's hard when your teacher leaves midway through the year and then you get a new teacher with a new way of doing of things. But luckily the students grades have gone up. Which makes ... read more

There's only one thing more awkward than leaving a message on an answerphone. Leaving the message in Spanish, asking to meet a lady who has no idea who I am, whilst being watched by three (greatly amused) staff of the Hotel Boston. Maybe because of the entertainment value or out of sympathy, they refused to charge us for the call. I was trying to contact Zoila - to cut a long story short, a friend of a mum of a friend back home. We had her name, a phone number, plus some photos and a small gift from Ireland, carried through five other counties before reaching Honduras. There was little more we could do except explore Tegucigalpa and hope not only that it was a current phone number but that she would return our call before ... read more

The first thing I asked myself, when I walked into school this morning, was "Why does David have a gun?" My second question was "Why do Josue, Cris, Kevin and Ramon have guns too?" It turns out that this week we are celebrating El Alba's 24th anniversary. So it only makes sense that the students should bring guns to school. I must say that, after I made the connection, I felt a little embarrassed. I mean, why shouldn't students be allowed to bring guns to school? It made me think back on my first big date with Karina, a year after we met... perhaps I should have brought my nine. Or maybe just a boot knife would have sufficed, I don't know because this custom is all new to me. I am from a crazy backwards ... read more