I am so glad I decided to check out your blog... These words are incedibly touching and thought-provoking. It's funny, I was just thinking about this exact same thing with La Crosse today. It's considered a great community with great health care facilities and schools...but, as a young person living here I see so many divisions...poor/rich, white/black, young/old...and, it is making me more pessimistic about our society... thanks for the last paragraph though...as they say, "it is truely the small things that matter". I think...
What happened next? What happened next? Are you still teaching there? I am planning to teach in Honduras next year and I enjoyed your blog...I want more!
THANKS FOR BEING YOU! HI! I'M A HONDURAN LIVING IN NJ FOR THE PAST 30 YRS. I'M VERY PROUD OF YOU FOR DOING WHAT YOUR DOING FOR OUR CHILDREN IN HONDURAS. I KNOW IT COULD BE A LITTLE HARD AT TIMES BEING THAT THAT OUR CULTURE IS DIFFERENT, BUT WE COULD COPE WITH IT! I WHICH I HAD THE GUTS JUST TO MOVE TO HONDURAS AND DO THINGS FOR OUR CHILDREN. I TRY TO GO THERE ONCE A YR. AND WHEN I GO I BRING TONS OF THINS TO GIVE OUT TO THE NEEDY. I'M FORM TEGUZ AND DO MY DONATIONS TO THE CHURCH. ON A FINAL NOTE JUST KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! IT'S OBVIOUS THOSE KIDS LOVE YOU!
Mall Multiplaza Hey, searched for Honduras travel blogs and came to this one! I can't believe I'm seeing Mall Multiplaza again, what a heaven sent place! I'm still pining for my babies at Escuela Experimental in Comayaguela. If you are anything like me, you'll be feeling the effects when you are back home!
Wow Hi, you dont know me but I just read your blogs about teaching the 5th graders and it sounds similar to my experience this past summer.(I cant believe how long ago it was!) I also was teaching classes to 5th graders as well as 1st-4th graders every week in a little community in Lempira, and I loved it.
Although my friend and I only taught classes in English, the kids in my community would say the cutest things, and they absolutely loved us. I remember the first day of class I was observing, and watched the school sing their national anthem-while staring at my partner and I off the side instead of the flag that was right in front of them. good times.
Well sounds like your having fun, I wish you luck.
Can I ask you how you got the job teaching there, I would like to try it in the future.
Had to hook up with you as my last e-mail never made it. I resent it today. Any way the writing abilities of the kids are impressive, but the content made me sad. I'd just want to take him home.I know what you mean about the limited menu. When we're in Cabo for only two weeks I need to bring 1 suitcase of just food, and I love tacos and the like. The pictures are awesome, especially the falls, and the shoe store. It's calling me. Hope you had a happy birthday. Heard you got your 1 pkg. Hope you get ours-SOON! I love you...Aunt Sandy
yes, I want coffee...please be careful Wow, the pics were fantastic, and I definitly would like to help with the school. But, you are the one that has to bring empty suitcases home to be filled. Ouch, the mail is expensive!
I am pleased! Very good child, you are eating your vegetables!!! Seriously, enjoy the fresh produce, we had a hard frost this week and the tomatoes took a hit along with the corn and herbs left out on the porch at the farm house. I went to a quilting class today and worked on a flannel quilt. Looking at your pics, and then looking outside, you may get company sooner than planned. Love you !
germs! Hi Jenna, Ok, heres a thought! If they didn't have any "soap" around and they didn't have any "gloves" around, a person would be very lucky not to leave the hospital with additonal illnesses. :) Actually, I am very glad they were so helpful and you are getting better. I'm sure more germs are spread around just eating with a group of preschool children. Although, i have to say, after 10 days of class, the children with NO English have learned all the different times during the day when they have to wash their hands. and...if they already washed their hands to eat and then decided to go use the bathroom, why does the teacher make them wash their hands again! :) ( hard to debate the issue when they can't speak English!
Hand Sanitizer Well Jenna, not to worry, i have SEVERAL Hand Sanitizers all over my house, not to mention the HUGE one we received from a parent last year. Well, now i know what to send you for your birthday! :)
I love reading your journals but visualizing the bathroom seen was a little hard to handle. Is this the story you told I would enjoy reading! :)
Hey, i am glad you are feeling better.
my hair is turning gray Child!!!! Are you and your dad trying to do me in? First him, and then you. I am the only one staying at home and both of you end up in the hospital the same week. I am glad to know that you were taken care of and are feeling better. If Karen isn't ready to send over hand sanitizer, I am! I have been spraying my tables and desks for the last week, due to the colds, strep, and nasties going around. Today I thought about sanitizing the pencils after seeing a child chew on one. I love you and would appreciate you taking care of yourself! Will call on Sunday.
Totally stealing this list and adding it to my already posted entry on my blog. I love it. It was definately a night to remember... best one in Honduras so far.
smiles Where did the time go..I still remember you and Elizabeth trying to twirl your batons as little tykes!! Then the pompoms in middle school and then the flags. Those young ladies are lucky you had so much practice early in life. I still haven't seen a picture of you'all in you uniforms. If you look as sharp as the kids, I don't see what the problem is.
Have a good week! Leinnee has been great according to dad. Wait until you hear about Leinnee's adventures at Grampa's. Love you sweetie! Mom
Yay for us and the ponponaras. I asked Mercedes, and that is the official spelling. We'll get those girls spining and kicking in no time. So glad to be sharing in this experience with ya :)
Jenna, everyday must be an adventure for you! I love the scale story :)
and just to let you know, we sent 2 more packages today and that is an adventure in itself! ( but very much worth it!) . Plus, for anyone who mails a package or letter to Jenna and doesn't want to get "yelled' at from the postal service, please remember to write HONDURAS on the very Bottom and in BIG letters. Otherwise it is possible, looking at the zip code, it will go some place in the east coast and never leave the US. (which is what they think might of happened to the first package i sent. they say eventually someone will catch the problem and it may arrive in a few months!) Lets hope its on its way. Oh yes, and birthday cards to Jenna should be mailed VERY soon. It can take 3 weeks for her to get a letter! Jenna, keep the stories coming!
Jenna, today was a weird first day back to school for Travis. I got a call from the school around 10am saying that Travis went to use the bathroom and never returned to class. Hmmm, Whats up with that!! Well, at least we know YOU didn't have anything to do with it, being that you are in honduras! :)
Ok, we might be joking a little but we LOVE what you wrote about that little boy. We still think you should of let him go to "the bathroom" but given him your shoe size first in case he happened to run into a cool shoe store! :)
I originally started this blog to keep my friends and family updated while I was away teaching in Honduras. However, upon my return to the states I found out my fifth graders from Honduras were having fun reading it as well. Now that I'm back teaching in the United States (just for a brief time, I may add), this is just another way to keep in touch with friends, family and twenty of the coolest kids worldwide. Miss you guys! ... full info
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Awww...old times I really miss!!! Oh I look soooo young!!!