Yikes

So I'm very very busy this week planning for a very busy week because mid-term grades are due on wednesday. Also I'm going to a soccer game at the stadium in Tegucigalpa this wednesday, between the two biggest rivals in the country, Olympia and Motagua, I already bought an Olympia jersey, so I guess I'm pulling for them. I'll take some pics and try to post them.

Earlier this week there was a student in 9th grade, whose parents came to school and warned our principal that they had gotten kidnapping threats and in those kidnapping threats they told the parents when and what time their kids did everything during the day. And a teacher was robbed at gunpoint right outside our school, someone took his cell phone and that was it. No one is sure if the events our connected at all, but the school is on pretty high alert.

One of the teachers from our school has family on the Northern Coast near the Carribean, and right next to San Pedro Sula (the 2nd biggest city in Honduras). Her family really wants to have all of the North American teachers to come and stay at their house. So that's where I'll be going this weekend, I'm really excited about it, and it should be really fun!! One of those nights we will be in a beach house which I'm pretty excited about too.

Hopefully I'll be able to post some thoughts later, not much time to do that now though.

Oh I almost forgot, the teacher conference on friday and saturday was really good, they had 3 breakout seminars and the ones I went to were all in English. The most helpful was probably "20 ways to engage your students" that was very helpful. It was at a private Christian school up ontop of a mountain about 30 minutes away, and there was a ton of really experienced North American teachers there who knew their stuff.

To my surprise, the Bible teacher there just happened to be a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute in 1991. So we had a good talk about which teachers were around still. He remembered Sauer and Dr. Marty, and DeRosset. He also had Quiggle for Philosophy and Cornman for church history, which was very cool. He taught in Senegal I believe before he came here, at an academy there, in which he did say that a girl named Jennifer was teaching there now. I'm not sure who she is though. But it was very cool to meet a fellow Moody here in Honduras!! He was a youth min major with a pastoral emphasis, and he talked alot about the importance of worldviews. Which I think are definitely important but I don't have time to share any of my thoughts on it now.