The Exploits of a Honduran Teacher

Cultural Night

Last night we had the annual "Cultural Night" fundraiser for the school. Each grade is assigned a country and then they set up a booth in the courtyard of the school, which they have to decorate with things from that culture. Then each booth sells food from their specific country, and tons of people come to eat and listen to live music (we had a mariachi band, the army marching band and a marimba band). Brian and I were recently made co-homeroom teacher of a 7th grade class, so we were in charge of a lot of things last night. Our grade was given Italy, which, I must say, I was very pleased about. We made a big Italian flag and made various posters with Italian phrases, pictures and random facts to decorate the booth (plus we had a replica of the "David" statue). For food, we had one of the mothers (who is from Italy) make the lasagne, and we ordered out pizza. The pizza was a pretty big hit and we ended up making a lot of money (more than most of the other classes). I spent my night divided between keeping track of the money, waiting for pizza to be delivered, and being locked away in the "jail" (people could pay to have you locked up for a certain amount of time- I was there A LOT). I don't know if that means I am loved or hated, but at least I got some attention. :)

For the past few weeks we have been pretty busy- we finished up the 2nd quarter and I have been playing guitar at church 4 days a week for the past two weeks. This weekend I am not playing, so I look forward to just relaxing. In three weeks we are heading up to the Bay Islands to go SCUBA diving for Spring Break... I can't wait!

posted by Whitey @ 10:03 AM