All of the celebrations!

I meant to try and keep this updated each week, but I totally missed last week. My apologies to all of you who are clearly extremely interested in hearing about my life.

Let's see here...on the 10th we had children's day. I honestly find this day a bit strange, as I'm sure most Americans would. I mean, kids have it pretty easy in life as it is. Do they really need a day off school for no other purpose than to play and eat candy? Whatever, Honduras believes that such a day is necessary. Los Pinos decided to celebrate this year by taking the kiddos to the "Aqua Park." It's a glorified pool with some slides and fountains and such, but the kids LOVED it. I really enjoyed splashing around too. We also had pizza and piñatas and, of course, lots of candy. All in all, it was a very enjoyable day and I know the kids enjoyed the treat.

We went back to school on Friday expecting to accomplish nothing. After all, the kids had just spent an entire day swimming the day before and wouldn't have school at all the next week. Little did I expect though that we would actually quite literally not accomplish a thing because we literally had parade practice ALL day long. Those kids marched up and down the road by the school for hours to prepare for independence day. Luckily, Mildred called the buses and sent us all home an hour early. The hard work paid off and all of the students did an absolutely magnificent job in the parade on Monday!

Tuesday we piled 8 adults into an SUV that seats 5 and headed for Omoa for a few days at the beach to celebrate teacher's day which was the 17th. It was a long and uncomfortable drive, but well worth it. We stayed with some of Mildred's family that has a nice, big house there and enjoyed a few days of relaxing at the beach. We also visited the fortress which was super cool. Miss Fanny tried to teach me how to make tortillas. I wasn't very good at it, but it was still a fun learning experience. We also got to teach the Honduran teachers some card games, this was probably my favorite part of the trip. Seeing a 20 year old play slap jack for the first time and get an absolute kick out of it was so much fun!

Now I'm enjoying a quiet weekend. I watched movies all day today and it was fantastic. Tomorrow will be lesson planning then back to the school thing on Monday.

Until next time world, much love from Honduras!