Back to Routines

After all the travel we had done within a few weeks, we have spent the last two weekends here in La Union and have been back to full weeks at school.  Last weekend I spent a lot of time laying around and watched a few movies.  At first I was extremely bored and then I was reminded that I haven’t had a chance to relax at home in several weeks so I decided to seize the opportunity while it was there.  We had our typical Saturday game night and 4 of us girls decided to paly euchre.  The others were playing Settlers, which of course took longer so we snuck away and had some girl time (including a bottle of wine).  Over the weekend I also had the opportunity to Skype with one of my dear friends who told me the news of her engagement and plans for a January wedding.  I am very excited for her!

This week at school was much of the normal.  It was the end of the partial though so the kids were a bit on edge about what their grade was like.  I even had a girl ask me on Friday in the 2^nd to last class of the day if there was something she could do to raise her grade.  I just said it’s a little too late since today is the end of the partial.  Since this is Honduras and we have basically no technology we have to compute all of our grades by hand so that is what I have spent the weekend doing.  I am pretty happy with the way they turned out especially in my biology in chemistry classes because the grades were quite high.  I gave my biology students the task of creating a play about meiosis that they had to show me on Friday.  They had Wednesday and Thursday of class to plan and what they came up with was great.  We videotaped it and I did some editing this weekend with it.  The final product turned out pretty cool and I am excited to show it to them. 

On Monday we got to see the presidential debate.  We started out listening to it through internet radio and once we realized we had enough download allowance status to stream the video we did that.  We are very anxiously awaiting the election.  It is also election season here in Honduras except that November will be voting just for primaries and then next year they will elect their new leadership, so they actually have a whole year between primaries and actual elections. 

We have also been playing in a fundraiser volleyball tournament put on by the colegio (local high school).  We are currently 3-3.  Yesterday we played twice and won 1 and lost 1.  The loss was a tough one, it went into the 3 games and we lost the third 16-14.  We recovered and won the afternoon game though.  Last night we all got together and had someone make us dinner.  She made what she calls gringas, which are delicious but hard to describe.  It’s a tortilla with chicken, pico de gallo, cheese and a white sauce in it.  We also had a delicious cake complete with nutella frosting for dessert to celebrate Cassidy’s birthday, which is on Wednesday. We were all exhausted from the day and had more work to do, so we decided to forego the games for the night and we all went home to relax. 

Today will be a day filled with lesson planning and preparing for the week, as well as doing the double checking on the grades I calculated yesterday.  Next weekend we are planning a trip to Gracias to venture out and to make a trip to the post office.  I am hoping that the packages I have been sent will have arrived by then :)