Monday, August 13, 2012

First Weekend


13 August 2012
After a fun and relaxing weekend settling into our new surroundings we are back at school preparing for the arrival of our students and parents.  This weekend we took sometime on Saturday to hike up to campo del cerro.  This was only about a 45 minute hike but was very steep.  Upon arrival at the top of the mountain we found a flattened field that was perfect for soccer, or in our case frisbee.  It is amazing though that the forest just clears out and there is an open field.  We ate lunch in the shade of the trees and then tossed a frisbee around.  In the evening Lenny and Kara were nice enough to make us a wonderful dinner of stir fry and we hung out and played games (settlers catan and catchphrase).  Sunday was a lazy and relaxing day.  After attending Vida Abundante Church where the sermon was in Spanish we visited the fruit stand.  Brooke and I made a fruit salad which we enjoyed for lunch.  Many of us had coffee and visited with each other in the evening and then later played some cards.  It is interesting here though because the natives here don’t play card games or anything like that because they automatically associate it with gambling.  The same thing is present for drinking; they don’t believe in casual drinking, but rather only see it as 2 extremes (none or alcoholic).  Luckily we have already decided as a group that a trip to Honduras’ largest inland lake where there is a microbrewery is a must.  This is actually more for the fact that they have good burgers than it is for anything else. 
Today we are back at school though.  We are all working on finishing our decorations for our classrooms and have begun planning out our year.  Unfortunately for me, I will be in the new classroom and that means that it is not yet finished so I haven’t been able to get in my room or hang anything up.  Currently, I don’t have windows or a door, no electricity and no desks or whiteboard.  Fortunately, my room is the 10th grade classroom and they only have 9 students so that will make it easier to be flexible. 
Tonight we have been invited to dinner at the church Pastor’s house.  We are looking forward to this as it is one less meal we have to make for ourselves.  In the past few days we have found that cooking here is very time consuming and quite the process.  Hopefully we can become accustomed to this because planning for my 6 preps is going to take a lot of time out of my day. 

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