The Carribean and San Pedro Sula

Wow, I've got so many pics I want to post, maybe I'll have to put them on facebook. Anyways, this past weekend I went to the Carribean, about a 4 to 5 hour drive. We went with a teacher who grew up in Puerto Cortez which is right on the coast as well. We spent the night in San Pedro Sula on Friday night and then went to Omoa which is right on the coast. It was really nice, we stayed at Ms. Sabillon's friend's house right on the beach!! And there were hamicks all over her yard which was really nice.

On Saturday we went to the largest fortress in Central America, I got alot of pictures of that although I forgot it's name. Then we toured all around Puerto Cortez where Ms. Sabillon grew up, and we saw the most amazing marching band rehearsing in the street that I had ever seen. They were dancing all over the place and were throwing down some amazing rhythms. It was awesome. During this whole time Ms. Sabillon had a 4 year old boy named Alejandro that I played with the whole time, he was so fun. He liked to tap me on the back and when I turned around to see who it was he would shake his finger and say, "Yo no fui" (it wasn't me) it was really funny.

The water was really clear but it was cloudy the whole weekend, so the water didn't look as blue as I've seen in other pictures. We had some amazing food on the trip too, real fish caught in the Carribean, really good tortillas, coconut bread, and some of the best pancakes with homeade strawberry syrup that I've ever had. There was also homemade orange juice and pear juice which was really good too.

Ms. Sabillon's dad enjoyed telling us how old fashioned Honduran men feel about gender roles. His dad always told him, "A man who doesn't know how to control his women isn't a man at all." Women should always be in the kitchen or in the household while the men go out and provide for the family. It was pretty interesting....

The soccer game on thursday was unbelievable!! I loved it, Motagua beat Olimpia 2-1 but it was an amazing game and the Olimpia fans were jumping up and down probably 3/4 of the game and they had many many different chants and cheers. While the Motagua fans burned an Olimpia flag and everyone was shooting fireworks off in the crowd. I was in the calmer section where there are seats, but most of the stadium was standing room only. There was also riot police everywhere, after the game was over they were beating uncooperative fans and chasing them down, it was amazing to see like 100 people darting away from a few police officers. I'm going to a national team game on Sunday, so that should be really fun, Honduras is playing Panama.

Oh yeah, it's my birthday today and everybody make huge deals about birthdays here, so all of my classes tried to sing happy birthday to me, so that was a bit awkward and tiresome but it's my birthday so I need to get into the spirit I guess.

This also marks the 2 month point since my arrival, it's gone by so fast, I can't believe how fast it's gone by. And teaching is still very very hard, and very very tiring, but some of my relationships with my kids are starting to progress, which is pretty cool. Please continue to pray though.