Capitulo Cinco: Un mes!

September 5th
Today is my one month anniversary with my beloved Honduras. Every day together has been new and strange and surprising and captivating and irreplaceable. This evening I spent some time working in my classroom and when I finished I sat outside on the balcony. It was dark and the sky was all cloudy and dark pink in spots. Occasionally distant lightening would light up the sky and change the whole color scheme for a second. The weather was perfect and I just sat there and soaked up the luxury. It is luxury to be alone with your best Friend on a night like tonight and just forget everything but His steadfast love.
Well this week flew by. Nothing too eventful to report in the classroom. I finally found a line that works! I've been fighting with my students since day 1 to walk in straight lines, so on Friday when they finally succeeded I almost cried. I've had a chest cold all week so I've barely had a voice...

September 12th
I was meaning to finish this last week and now it's almost next week. How did that happen? Time is picking up speed and all I can remember to write about is a blurring colorful smear of events. My chest cold is persistent and muy guacala but I am still fully functional. I am eagerly anticipating the sweet relief that follows the occasion when I hack up one of my lungs.
We celebrated "Day of the Child" on Friday. It was everything you can imagine and more. This week we will be celebrating Independence Day on Tuesday (assembly, parade, parties, mayhem) and we'll have the day off on Wednesday.
My roof now has a leak that is perfectly situated above my desk. I was horrified at first but now I kind of like it because it makes me feel like I live in a foreign country. My kids are fantastic. Have I mentioned that yet? As a whole they love art, hate reading, they're ridiculously good at soccer, terrified of thunder, and they talk incessantly. Reading my students' papers is always an adventure due to their unintentional English language learner humor.
Well... tomorrow's Monday so I'm afraid I can't be loquacious tonight. All is well here. I am gaining some incredible friends and intensely missing some incredible friends. Thanks for the prayers. I live off of them. Please pray that I will know how to build friendships with parents and communicate well and that I would be focused on bringing God glory and not get disracted with peripheral things. Haggai 1:5-9