New Exciting Opportunities

So last weekend I went to the picnic at CCI, a second church that I've been going to that has the english speaking service. We were there for about 2 and a half to 3 hours, and had to go back early because one of our buddies had to go back early for tutoring english. But during that time I got to talk to a couple of cool guys, one guy I was talking to was telling me about how he grew up in Panama and played semi-pro soccer there. They won the national title while he was playing on the team one year. I also got to talk to one of the Pastor's there named Pastor John who is actually from Pittsburgh, PA!!. I told him about Summer's Best Two Weeks, but unfortunately he had never heard of it.

So I was talking to Pastor John and I found out that he actually trains pastors in the mountains every weekend, in remote parts of Honduras. He goes almost every single weekend, so I told him that that was definitely a big interest of mine and that I would love to tag along with him one weekend. He said that would be great, and he actually looks for people to go with him every weekend for accoutability and protection. So I'm think within like 2 to 3 more weeks I'll have an opportunity to go.

This week was pretty crazy in school. The final grades were due this week and the kids in my 7th and 8th grade classes simply do not study at all. So as a result I have some classes in which amost half of them are failing. I think this quarter what I may end up doing is just teaching them how to study. And to take notes.

Let's see, it was about an average week for detentions I handed out about 4 to 5 this week. Disicipline still continues to be an issue, but I'm getting used to dealing with my students though, which I guess is a good thing.

Wednesday I went to another game at the national stadium, Olympia played Victoria, I went with 2 other Honduran teachers, Victoria is the 1st place team, Olimpia is 2nd. They tied 0-0. Mal partido, porque no estuvo gols.

Friday, my American buddy Tristan and I went to play soccer at our normal place where I scored my first goal!!!!! And then afterwards we went to this big gas station type place with alot of the guys from soccer where we hung out for about 2 hours with them. I had a couple really good talks with guys there, so my Spanish is definitely improving slowly but surely.

Tonight was the beginning of our church's missions conference in which they have once every 6 months. I also went to teen challenge and a new orphanage which has just been built. Teen challenge is a place for recovering drug addicts and ex-gang members, in which they enroll themselves for a year. After that they graduate and move on usually, although some come back to the facility and work there. In fact, there are over 100 participants in the program now and about 20 staff. All the staff except for the director are former participants in the program. I'll try to post some pics of it later.