Parade of Gringas!

This is an overdue update! A lot has happened since the last time I wrote! I have been so overloaded with planning, grading, cooking, and more cooking, that I have had zero time for myself! I will just tell you a little bit for now and finish updating when I have the time.

(Here is picture of me and some of my favorite boys! Krystian, Bryan, and Nelson. Just to let you know, I look pretty tired in every picture, because I AM....)

Yesterday was parent teacher conferences. I went into them confidently and did pretty well! I spoke broken Spanish for 2 hours straight with rarely a break. I talked to about 12 parents and only 3 of them knew any English. Believe me, when I asked them if they knew English, and they said yes, I felt as if a ton of beans were lifted from my shoulders. (We eat a lot of beans...) Anyway, I spoke just about every word of Spanish I knew and struggled to get my point across, but thankfully they understood me. Not to mention I sweating most of the time, well more than usual ;) Hah. It was nerve wracking, but it was awesome! I actually, for the first time, had a real conversation in Spanish. I was proud of myself :)

Here is a little about the Independence Day parade we were in a few weeks ago.

The morning of the parade we were told to be at the school bright and early at 6:00 am. But we have slightly become accustomed to central American time and we left the house at 6:00 because no one is on time here. EVER. Which means when I get back to the states I'm going to be later than I usually am ;) ha ha. When we got there, there were a few people but of course the majority didn't trickle in until 6:45, 7:00ish. The missionaries held up the back of the school in the parade and thankfully our group was 3rd in the parade which meant we started early and ended early. Our school had a big band and little cheerleaders in pink and white outfits.


As we all walked down the boulevard, random camera men would film us or take pictures. I'm not going to lie, I felt like a celebrity...hah I think I have been on TV 3 times so far, two commercials for the school and the parade. Anyway, we marched VERY SLOWLY in extreme heat for hours. HOURS. They drink water in mini bags here called Aguazul and they passed those out to everyone who was dying of heat. It was a bit odd seeing white Americans marching for Honduran Independence Day. There were alot of girls in tiny (I mean tiny) uniforms twirling batons around. One of the Catholic schools had these girls with the tiniest uniforms of them all (butt cheeks hanging out) dancing next to fully clothed head to toe nuns. Oh the irony! We were laughing pretty hard. Well, the parade wasn't the most eventful, but I can now say that I've been in one!