Hello to all my fabulous supporters. Sorry it's taken me so long to update. Internet has been sporadic at my current residence so I had to find another way to upload this post. Right now, I'm sitting at the Sigua Texaco enjoying the free Wi-Fi, and a Honduran breakfast burrito. Hope you enjoy the update on my past month in Honduras!
My first two weeks in Honduras were spent in meetings and preparing my classrooms. I'm teaching the preparatoria(kindergarten), primero(1st grade) and segundo(2nd grade) classes this year. My students are the same children I taught last year, I just moved up a grade with them! It made the first day of school much smoother since I didn't have to learn 80 new names like I did last year. I've also been pleasantly surprised by how much English my students remember!
Dia del Nino- One of the things I love about Honduran culture is how these people love to celebrate! There seems to be a holiday for everything. They celebrate mother's day and father's day but they also have Day of the Woman, Teacher's Day, and Day of the Pine Tree. There's a festival to celebrate corn and another to celebrate bread. Unfortunately, we don't get off school for each celebration(or we would never have class), but we observe several of these holidays at school. This past Friday was day of the Child(Dia del nino). Each class got to have a party including a pinata! Pictures will be added later.
Need for More Sponsors- I've written about the need for sponsors and how important they are to the functioning of the school before but I'll remind everyone. Each Destino student has a sponsor that donates per month. This money is used to purchase food, uniforms, vitamins, pay for fuel to run the bus, etc. In addition, the sponsors/padrinos are asked to pray for their student by name. Each year 30 new sponsors are needed for the incoming kinder(preschool) class. Right now approximately 25 new sponsors are needed and the new school year has already begun. Pray that God will lead the right people to become sponsors and help support our students.
Crazy Weather- Honduras's weather has been very temperamental lately. There are two main season here, the dry season and the rainy season. Normally, the dry season would be ending now and the rainy season would begin in a few weeks. I've been here for about a month and when I arrived, the rainy season had already begun. All the excess rain has been making life difficult for everyone. For us at Destino, the weather is simply unpleasant and our internet is unreliable. However, last week a small mudslide caused an accident on the highway about a mile from here. In other, more rural areas of the country, people's homes are being buried and in the capital flooding is a constant threat. Please pray for all the families affected by the excess rain and that it would stop.
