Building time

last week was a pleasant shortened week thanks to a sewage problem on monday, led to the closing of school. But after that we had a normal rest of the week.

Just to let everyone know, everyone seems to keep asking me if teaching is getting any easier and to tell you the truth, it's not, but I feel a bit more confident now, and I continue to develop better relationships with more of my students everyday. Right now when I supervise at recess I have a good enough relationship with 3 10th graders, that I usually talk with them for the whole 20 minutes everyday, and we usually have a pretty good time talking. (Pablo, Erick, and Jose).

On Friday My buddy and made our normal arena soccer routine on Friday night, and then got a few hours of sleep. We woke up the next morning and joined alot of the same soccer players from our church to help build another church over in a pretty big village about 45 minutes away. We all went on a big church bus, and I made some really cool new friends with 2 guys named Luis and (well I forgot the other one's name, but we worked with them all day), carrying cement, shoveling dirt, pretty much the whole day. This might sound like torture to some of you, but it felt really good for me, because the only work I've been doing so far has been lifting markers to write on the dry erase board. We were laying down cinder blocks with cement and smoothing out the floor and tamping it down the whole day. One of our friends was digging one time and he accidentally crack right through a pvc pipe that ran to give everyone their water. It spring like 2 to 3 feet at first right out of the ground, but some of the natives came over really quickly, turned the water off and taught us how to replace that part of the pvc pipe, it was pretty cool.

We went to church that night, and started to prepare for our big American thanksgiving feast we were going to have, since Hondurans don't usually celebrate thanksgiving. We invited about 25 total people and we all ate on top of the roof of one of the North American's apartments. Alot of our closest Honduran teacher-friends were invited to the dinner, and they really enjoyed it. Alejandro, my little 4 year old buddy was there, and we had a really good time, I always love playing with him, we went to the fair together 2 weeks ago. Everyone loved it though, we had a really good time saying in English and in Spanish what we were thankful for. And I definitley said how thankful I was of all the Hondurans who have welcomed us so warmly. As well as for God who has plans that I would have never expected or never imagined, being here would be a great example of that.

After that we went to the English speaking church and I had been talking to the pastor about following him to a meeting where he trains different pastors. However I just found out that it got bumped back a week!!! The same weekend as our retreat with the soccer guys on top of a mountain with a sweet waterfall. I think I'm gonna go on the retreat because I'm alot more committed to those guys, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have alot more opportunies to go along with Pastor John, training other pastors.

And I just bought a bus ticket, 60 bucks round trip to San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. 6 of the North Americans are going on this thursday morning, we leave at 6 AM, and we'll leave at 2 PM to go back on Sunday. Were gonna hit up the beach, hopefully some volcanoes and other cool places, hopefully get some cool souveniers in the process too.

So that's it, that's the update so far. It's really cool that God's giving all these opportunites for me, every weekend is full with all kinds of different opportunities.