The Exploits of a Honduran Teacher

one more week!

There is only one more week until our first Spring Break! I am really excited! Brian, Jason, Phil Johnston (from Wheaton) and I are heading up to the north coast of Honduras. Phil (who is Brian's best friend) flew into Guatemala last week from Paris and he is going to be coming over to Tegus later this week. Then we're going to drive up to one of the islands off of the coast named Utila. It is the cheapest place in the world to get SCUBA certified- we are going to spend four days diving and then end up with a lifetime Open Water Certification- all for $230. Plus it is diving paradise- Utila is located on the second largest barrier reef in the world (right behind the Great Barrier Reef in Australia). And supposedly Utila is just a really chill place- it isn't touristy yet and a lot of Europeans vacation there. And on top of all that, I get a week off of school! It will be great.

This past week went pretty well. School wasn't very busy and I didn't have too many problems with students. I played today and yesterday at church, which went really well. The music pastor picked some pretty rocking songs and then we had two electric guitarists (plus me on acoustic), so it was pretty loud. You guys should check out the song "Take It All" by Hillsong United (or "Tomalo" en espanol), it is pretty catchy. I was also asked to produce a cd of worship songs that the worship team has written, which should be pretty fun to do, but it will take a lot of time too! So there are a lot of cool things on the horizon... and in the midst of it all, I have to decide what I'm going to do next year. I would appreciate your prayers. Thanks so much.

posted by Whitey @ 2:19 PM 1 comments

An interesting week

This past week was long. I had lots of school work to do and tests to write, so that is pretty much what I did every night. However, we made did set aside some time to make a few really great meals. My favorite was a spicy satay stir fry with fresh green beans, peppers, onions and jalapenos.

Anyway, this morning we took a trip out to Picachu- which is a huge statue of Jesus overlooking all of Tegus on a mountainside. It was really beautiful. Maybe I will post some pictures later. Tonight we are having lots of Hondurans over for a Super Bowl party. It should be lots of fun. There are two other Americans coming over and probably 10-15 Hondurans, some of whom haven't ever watched futbol americano. And most of them don't speak English either. Hopefully there are subtitles on tv.

This past week at school was interesting... one of the students ran away from home, so she isn't going to be coming back. One of the teachers (who isn't married) announced that she is pregnant, but our principal can't fire her because we are short on teachers as it is. And several of my students tried to convince me to smoke pot with them. (?!) We have a section on drug use coming up in Psychology, so I am going to be sure and lecture them on that. I was just kinda shocked that they would even think about asking a teacher to do that...

posted by Whitey @ 2:54 PM 4 comments