2 Weeks Later

The past few Saturday nights a few of us girls have been going to the school to play games with some people from the church and school. We play games I have never heard of and they are a BLAST! So far it is the most fun I have had since I've been here.

The first day of school was on Friday. I wasn't nervous (thankfully) and I gave my third graders some classroom rules. When I was finished I told them to make their own rules for the class. Half of them had no idea what I was asking them to do. So I had to individually explain it them. So I've been thinking, how on earth am I going to teach them math and science if they can't even understand simple instructions like making their rules. This is going to be a challenge.
So the first day wasn't to bad at all. I really thought it was going to be worse by far. The little kids are so lovey here. I had only spent a few hours with my 3rd graders and they were already telling me that they loved me. A little girl wrote me a note that said "I love you mucho." I just about died! Ha ha.

We had 2 parties these past 2 days. The first one was the pastors birthday party. It was funny. The surprise party was supposed to start at 1:30 at the school. So we all went to the school at that time. Well, we sat around for an hour waiting for I don't know what. Finally someone asked what was going on and they realized that the pastor hadn't even been invited to his own party....so we had been waiting around for nothing! I thought it was really funny. It is really typical here that things are not on time and not scheduled. One of the things I have learned from being here is that you can't count on ANYTHING. For sure. The second party we had was last night and it was so much fun! The pastor is going to be gone in Costa Rica for 3 motnhs and we had a going away party at his house. There were about 40 people crammed into his small house and everyone made really loud barking noises ALL THE TIME. They have a song for everything here. It's all singing singing singing! We sang about 10 goodbye songs...and of course I had no idea what they were saying. Then everyone asked the missionary girls to sing a song to the pastor. So we sang Love is for the way you look at me.... it was so fun.

Well tomorrow is officially when classes start and to no surprise I have no schedule in my hand to figure out what I am going to teach tomorrow at what times. They will of course give it to me last minute. I'm not nervous and I am feeling really good about starting to teach!

WISH ME LUCK!

I feel bad...

People keep on coming to our house asking for food. Yesterday there was a man who asked for water and just would not leave. We had to tell him no. Then a boy came asking for food. It is so frustrating. I am assuming they think we are rich and can just give and give and give. We have just enough for ourselves and if we give to one, they are going to go tell another and it will be a never ending story and soon we would run out of food and water if we give to people. I am going to have to get used to this.

Oh Boy!

The plumbing in our house stopped working in our house the other day so we couldn't do the dishes. No big deal right? Well there were millions of ants everywhere and we couldn't clean anything to start making lunch and we were starving. I'll say it again, there were ants everywhere! So we didn't know what to do. Then the doorbell rang. It was an old man and right when I came to the door he immediately started talking to me in Spanish a million miles an hour. I had no idea what he was saying to me. So I told him in Spanish that I didn't know what he was telling me. He then began to tell me that he was hungry and that he needed money and hadn't eaten in 5 days. Oh gosh. I couldn't just go and get some food for him, we needed every piece of food we had. (Food isn't that plentiful here). So I told Kandice what to tell him in Spanish to go away. I felt so bad and I held back some tears. I just feel so badly for poor people and I wish I could help them all.

We (well I should say the rest of the girls) eat mayo on everything...Don't ask me why but they do.

I still haven't finished my lesson plans yet. It is pretty overwhelming. I still have to make the yearly lesson plans for all of my classes except for one and the 2 weeks of detailed plans for the rest, by Monday. Let me tell you, it's time consuming.

I have only been here for 6 days and it feels like a century. I already can't wait to go home :S

The picture to the left is a picture of down the street from our house. Below: Working hard on those lesson plans! Looks like we are in college again ;)

Lets get started!

Today I got my books for teaching. I have to make an outline of what I am going to teach for the whole year by Monday! I feel a little overwhelmed. I am teaching 3rd grade math, science, and bible as well as 8th grade literature. This is going to be a huge challenge but I´m so excited and ready to start! Today until Monday I will be working hard on those lesson plans!

The other missionary girls and me have been spending every night together in prayer and conversation. We eat and then bond! It is so great becuase we are all getting to know each other and becoming more comfortable every night. This is so awesome becuase when we are having hard times we have a little family to comfort eachother. I believe we are all here for a reason and God put each of us here specifically :)

Im Here!

I am finnally here! I had some trouble at the airport flying out of Minneapolis. My flight was set from Minneapolis to Houston and there I would meet the other missionaries but it was late so they re routed my flight to Atlanta instead. I got into Honduras an hour after the rest of the girls got there and they had already left for the city! I was pretty scared let me tell you! But right after I got my luggage a woman asked me if I was Sasha and I was beyond relieved! Anyway we met up with the other missionaries and went to pizza hut. They have alot fast food chains from the US here. The 7 of us girls live in 2 different houses right across the street from each other. The house that I live in is smaller and has no air conditioning but it is MUCH cleaner and cocharoach free :) (mostly) We are keeping a roach counter on the fridge! We live downtown in a city so we have a lot at our fingertips. It is great so far! I will be teaching 3rd grade and I´m pretty excited about that. But it has been made very clear that respect from the students is not expected. I will have to work very hard and be very patient! All is well for now though :)