My thoughts and the happenings

So what are the exciting things that have happened this past week? Well, this past week at school was prayer week which meant having an assembly every afternoon many which involved getting partly rained on outside. :) My hope is that my kids got more out of that week than I think they did. God is capable. Anyways, with a lot of chaos in the schedule the students were also a bit chaotic all week leaving me with less patience and even less energy. Here's an interesting story for you. One afternoon I sent my student to the doctor as she wasn't "feeling well". Well, next thing I know she comes back to class carrying something in her hands. You'd never guess what she had. A baby bird! She had picked it up off the sidewalk upstairs and brought it into the room! I tried to be stern yet not yell at her! Who does that? Kids. :)

On Friday night, I got to go watch a friend in a dance performance and did not stop smiling for 20 minutes straight! I love dancing and miss it SO much. Afterwards, we joined more friends who were celebrating the 3 birthdays of this week at the bowling alley. I got to play some pool and have fun!

Another interesting part to my week was last night when I just got to act like a regular twenty-something year old. Yesterday Honduras played Canada again for the world cup and we WON!!!! Watching the game was quite insane with the boys from school that we watched it with. We sat at this outdoor eating area of a strip mall. It was nuts. Afterwards, we were informed that now the "partying" begins. So we followed along, us three gringas, with Honduran men. We each had 2 body-guards. Good for you to know before I proceed this story. So we walk up Blvd. Morazan and find ourselves soon surrounded by thousands of people lining the streets shouting and celebrating still. Waving flags and cheering with the cars going by. They have a weird custom in that groups of people surround cars and rock them quite intensely. I can say that I did not participate in that as that got a little out of control. Some people ended up denting cars and when one guy got out of his car and went and dug into his trunk for something, I grabbed my friends and said "LET'S GO!!!" My heart was racing. Everything went fine though. Nothing happened and the police were right tthere the whole time anyway. We also saw two guys get arrested, rightfully so. It was nuts. But I do have to say that although I avoided the video cameras, it was really fun to jump and yell and cheer with all the cars.

On another note, there's a lot going on down here within our Northamerican group and teachers at IS. A lot you can be praying for.

• For starters, my friend Andres's mother, a Honduran teacher here, is ill and has probably passed away this weekend and he has been by her side to watch her go. It's hard to know how to move on.
• My housemate Beth's computer has had a major freakout and she has lost everything! Not only are pictures and music hard to live without, she also realized today in a breakdown that she lost all of her student's grades from this year. Pray hard that God resolves this.
• I got news today that 7 of my friends from school went to Santa Lucia ( a place I just visited not too long ago) and were mugged by 2 boys at gunpoint. They lost cameras, cell phones, and I'm nott sure what else. But I know sense of security and independence are robbed also.
• I personally have been asking a lot of hard questions lately about a lot of things. About faith, God, relationships, marriage, God's plan for my life. I've been debating if teaching is for me. I'm trying to decide where my passions lie. I've toyed with the idea of wanting to be a dance teacher or just pursue dance more. Maybe it's just to fill the need. I just know that teachign is hard and justt something I seem to be doing lately....like a robot.
  

It's hard to know how to answer all of those questions. Pray that God gives me people to battle these questions with and that I get peace and direction as I continue to be here.

It'll be 2 months this week! Half way to Christmas break. :)