Ouch

Wow, what a week it's been. Thank you to everyone who prayed for me on thursday, chapel and preaching went pretty well, a little better than I expected. I still wish I had more time to prepare though. But for the first time so far in chapel, God's Word was preached which was kinda nice to hear points directly from the Bible. Hopefully God worked in the kids lives because he certainly worked in mine.

In other news...last night we had a teacher's banquet, because it is teacher apreciation day on monday, which means no school on monday. So it was very cool, I sat next to one of the administrative assistants in the office "Au" I think that's what he said his name is. And one of his friends Pedro, who I met earlier and found out that we are very similar theologically, which was pretty cool. After that Tristan, (another North American teacher and I, with 3 of our friends to cheer us on, follow Joel, one of the Honduran teachers to our new friday night routine, arena soccer.

We were the only Gringos there, so were had our work cut out for us, we lost every game, and finally tied one at the end. During our last game in the first 10 seconds, I went up for a head ball and this other guy did as well, we ended up butting heads pretty hard. He immediately went down and was holding his head so no one could even see his face. I felt a little pain on the left side of my head, but I figured it was not anywhere near his injury so I went over to see if he was ok. I felt my head quickly as well to see if there was a bump, there wasn't really any bump, but when I looked at my hand there was blood all over it!! I was very surprised because it wasnt that painful, but I knew that I was the real one who was hurt, everyone took me over to the side and started spraying my head with water and then like 30 of the players surrounded me, and everyone was staring at me and talking to me, a few guys trying to comfort me. I heard from a few guys, "Ya al un Hondureno" which means, now he's a real Honduran. So everyone was welcoming me to the country via my head injury in a soccer game.

We called up the principal of the school, who shows us around and takes care of any emergencies, and she told us where an emergency room was. So we went there Joel was with us, showing us the way with his friend Algar, and Ms. Godoy, the principal met us at the hospital. So I got to experience the Honduran emergency room for the first time. And Ms. Godoy was translating for me. They cleaned my head up and told me I was going to need stitches, I wasn't sure at this point because I hadn't seen my head yet. Then they asked me when the last time I had a tetanus shot was. I said about 9 to 10 years, and they said then you need one tonight. So they gave me some stitches, 6 to be exact, the cut looked like an upside down "V" and gave me a tetanus shot in both sides of my but, which was probably more painful than the stitches. That was it though. After all that, it was a little over 100 bucks American money and they gave me some triple antibiotic ointment to place on my cut every 8 hours and got some headache medecine for me head, which was only about 10 bucks. I finally got home at about 2 in the morning, and was ready for bed. What a crazy night but I'm totally ok now, I get my stitches out in 5 days and in the meantime I have to clean it and put the gel on it every 8 hours. Everyone was so nice though and I had so much support from everyone. And God certainly used them to take care of me.

So I'm just chillin today, takin it easy, doing a little reading. I've had enough exitement to last me for a while. I guess this is why Mom and Dad wanted me to have insurance (which I have). It was also nice not having to wait in an emergency room for 2 to 3 hours before I was seen by a doctor, as soon as I got into the building, they took care of me, there was only 2 different room separated by a curtain, and of course my feet were too long and hung off the bed, which wouldn't have been bad except for the time when the cart went crashing into them, trying to get by. But overall I would have to say that my first trip to the emergency room here was a pleasant experience. I'll post some pictures of the place we played at.