Some Things to Talk About!

The past weekend was tremendous! There was such a lot going on...I'll just give some highlights...

Wednesday: We celebrated Trina's birthday at Applebees. A wonderful steak meal and good company, who could ask for anything more! Here's a picture of the birthday girl with Heidi and I. Tomorrow Chad comes to Honduras to see her, I'm thinking she's excited! :D

Thursday: We had a final get-together with our Bible Study group, which was a Birthday celebration for Heidi! We had Marcela's amazing Tortilla Soup, pistachios and some amazing home-made gelato! In one of those real gelato makers (none of that fake stuff!) The picture is of Marcela getting in the way of Heidi - she did this consistently all night! It was hilarious! She's holding the gelato mix before we put it in the machine. It was amazing to watch the gelato maker in action! Mark did a good job!

Friday: I was invited to Alejandra's house! She's a 10th grader...all I've got to say is - only in Honduras would your students like you so much they'd add you to their list of friends to hang out with after school! A large group of us got together (including 4 teachers) and watched a movie. I even got to sign her wall afterwards (apparently it's like a guestbook).

Saturday: Only the bestest day EVER! Wow...so much went on that day...for the whole scope of things check out Heidi's blog - she beat me at blogging, give her a hand! :D I enjoyed the floor hockey the best, it took me back to the good old days when I played every week! The soggy frisbee game was a close second...it was soo...wet! I thought I had played the game pretty nicely, only coming out with my legs covered in mud, but then Swanson felt I was too clean and picked me up - carrying me a quarter of the field only to set me down in the biggest mud puddle he could find! Good times! The picture of us is after the mud-dunking! It was really great being able to meet with people outside of Pinares, the embassy and international school had great representatives! I have to say that the life-size dutch blitz game was also a nice highlight...Charles (works at the feeding centre), Missy and myself dominated the game! We had the best teamwork I've seen this year! :D The picture below is right before Clinton and Tara (International) said goodbye. Ah, and the tarantula? Well, it is now in Priest's office, enjoying it's home in two of our cooking bowls! It was a great end of this great day!

This Week: We have no students! No more classes! But the work continues...in fact more so than teaching...we need to complete book inventories, grades, recuperation exams, studyguides, tutor, organize, etc...however, we still had time to give Kyle his birthday present - a guitar! We made him follow clues to find it...the last location being my classroom. Which is where it is now! We kept it there because of rain. Matute came into my classroom today and serenaded me with it, it was beautiful! I am so impressed with how he can play! He must have liked the guitar because he came back a couple of times! I'm hoping that happens the whole week! :D

Coming home in less than a week! We're excited!!

Photo of the day: Another view of our little 'buddy' (who I got pretty close to for this shot!)

In Him,
-Amy-