Weekend Wrap Up

T-minus 24 hours until our first day of school! We have been very busy preparing! From writing lesson plans to decorating our classrooms, the past few weeks have flown by! We have to report to school at 6:50am where we will have a short worship session including songs and devotions with all the school’s employees. Then, school officially starts at 7:10am and ends at 2:10pm. Unfortunately, Greg and I are on totally difference schedules as he is teaching secondary (junior high and high school) and I am teaching primary (elementary). My schedule is very full, only a little down time each day. Greg’s original schedule had a lot of free periods, until the school asked him to also be a counselor. Basically, a counselor at our school is a disciplinarian. Instead of going to the principal when a student misbehaves, they go to the counselor. I am sure Greg will be really intimidating since physically the biggest guy most of the kids have ever seen.

Even though school doesn’t start until tomorrow, we have to make a pit stop there today. You see, as a homeroom teacher, you are responsible for decorating your classroom. I am homeroom for both 4th grade classes and Greg is homeroom for one of the 7th grade classes. I completed the decorations for my rooms on Friday, and sadly, Greg has not even started his. However, it isn’t has fault – his classroom is still under construction! School was supposed to start last Monday (August 27) however, since the new building addition wasn’t going to be finished in time, they had to push the first day back a week. Supposedly the crew finished his room on Friday evening. We will go later today to find out for sure and put up some decorations.

We also have to pick up our uniforms today. About two weeks ago, they gave each teacher some khaki fabric and some black fabric (I am pretty sure it is wool…it is so thick and heavy!) Then they asked that we take the material to a tailor and have them make us 4 pair of pants. It cost us both 600 (about $30) Lempira to get 4 pair of pants made. Pretty good deal right? We will soon find out! In addition to the pants, we will wear a polo shirt (a difference color for each day) with our name and the school’s logo on the front.

Greg and I had a new experience yesterday; we went to the Comayagua Mercado for the first time. It was extremely packed, and people from every direction were trying to selling us things. We ended up leaving with some potatoes, tomatoes, a cucumber and a pineapple all for about a $1.50. Then last night we went to church with another one of our missionary friends. Her church (The Vineyard) in Phoenix started 2 new church branches here in Honduras (one in Tegucigalpa and one in Comayagua). She moved here a little over a year ago to help get them off the ground and be the liaison between the home church and the branch churches here. We both really enjoyed to both the service and the fellowship at La Vina.

I will have to admit though, that the highlight of our weekend is our new friend Coby. Who is Coby you ask? Our brand new 13 inch television. Let me explain…. We met with our friend, Bill, on Thursday night. In our conversation, Greg brought up his itch to watch some college football this weekend since the new season was kicking off. Next thing we knew we were at Bill’s house disassembling the TV that he ‘never uses because it is so small that he can’t see the screen.’ We rushed back to ours, screwed in the cable, and plugged it in, and VWLAH! Direct TV before our very eyes! Even a few of the channels were in English! We also discovered that we get Wyoming’s regional programming. Yeah, that is weird, but we aren’t going to complain…Greg was actually getting to watch some college football! I don’t think I will ever get used to Barney speaking in Spanish, but it is a little price to pay for the gift of cable television in Honduras!








Oh, and by the way, I finally redeemed myself from the horrible Honduran cooking attempt with some good ´ol fashion No Bake cookies! I could only contain my sweet tooth for so long! I had to get creative though since we don´t have an oven! They were a hit among the locals! :) (See photo right)