The Exploits of a Honduran Teacher

haircuts?

Well, I am at the end of another week. We don´t have classes tomorrow because all the teachers are going to an ACSI conference both Friday and Saturday. So it is nice to have a day off from teaching, but we are going to be sitting in conferences from 8 until 6. Saturday is only a half day, so we are going to go hiking up in the mountains with Erin Sheehy and some of her friends (because the conference is at a school up in the mountains).
This past week went pretty well for me. The students seemed to be more attentive than usual, but that is probably because I am developing a little bit of a reputation. I suspended five more students for cheating this week- so now all the students know that I don't mess around. These five boys cheated on a quiz the day after I gave their whole class a lecture on cheating and threatened to suspend them. I hope that they learned their lesson.
On a different subject, the seniors decided to involve Brian, Jason and I in one of their fundraising projects. All three of us have beards (Brian and I more than Jason), and beards are not the "cool" thing to have in Honduras. No one has beards here, except for a few who have the pencil thin, really shaped-type beards. So for the month of October, the senior class is going to collect money from the rest of the students and if they collect enough money (about $100 per person), we will shave our beards. If they collect even more money, then they can cut our hair too. I don't know how much they will raise, but I suspect that we won't have to cut too much off.

posted by Whitey @ 5:00 PM