Quick update...Happy Mother's Day!

Well, after those two weeks of fun it's back to school....but last Friday was the Mother's Day Celebration. The celebration was pretty fun -- disorganized and crazy as expected. And I wasn't even worried when one of the other teachers came in a taxi to pick me up at 4:50 (we were supposed to be there to set up at 4:30 and it was supposed to start at 5:00). I'm actually starting to understand this Honduran time schedule (not agree with it, but understand it). It didn't start till probably 5:30, which isn't too bad, but there were still people arriving at 7:00. Standard. A bunch of the kids got up to read poems, dance, sing, etc., and then everyone was served a delicious chicken lasagna dinner. The place was waaay too small though, so some people couldn't even get a seat...I guess it serves them right for being so late! Plus they didn't have nearly enough servers, so another teacher and I took matters into our own hands and went back to help the waiters serve. One thing I'll never get used to in this culture is how impatient everyone is here. It's the weirdest paradox though, because everyone is always late for everything. But then it's like, when they want something, they want it now. A lot of the students -- and even parents! -- just went back to stand at the door to the kitchen to ask for their food! I thought that was crazy...I would never do that when waiters are coming around to serve. Yes, it was taking a long time to get the food, but you have to just wait. Well, all in all it was a lot of fun, and I really like going to stuff like that because it makes it feel more like a school with extracurricular activities and other things to do...which we don't have much of here.

My senior girls (there are only 2) and I...the seniors are done in 2 weeks and I thought I was going to be excited because it means less work and more free periods...but I think I'm actually going to end up missing their class a lot! 

Besides that, it was back to the routine this week. I'm still teaching ESL Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so that's one of the best parts of my week. Lorena and I are actually becoming quite good of friends -- I usually go over there around 4 and end up staying till like 8 or 9. She always makes me dinner, and then sometimes we do a workout video together, or I watch a movie with her ten year-old son (I know him from swim lessons). Lorena is a first-grade public school teacher, and she's trying to teach her students some English, so I sent Rose an alphabet songs CD to bring down with her to give to her. She said her students LOVE it -- they didn't even want to go out for recess! Haha. I also gave Harry (her son) some marshmellow peeps that my Mom sent me for Easter, and it was really funny because he absolutely loves them. I gave them to him on Tuesday, and on Wednesday when I went over he told me he came home from school and just bit the head off one because he was trying to savor them. Haha. The other day I also went with them to pick up a bunch of stuff from the states. It was really kind of funny...there was this big semi-truck filled with huge boxes of stuff that people in the states sent to their relatives in Cata. Anyway, so it was just parked there and they went to go pick up a big box of stuff like shampoo and drink boxes and fruit cups that Lorena's husband (well ex-husband, but that's another story) had sent them. I don't know why, but the whole thing just struck me as kind of strange -- this huge semi filled with random stuff from the states?