More Opportunities

Well, last Friday was continental night at school, every grade represented a different country from 3 o’clock to 10 o’clock. All the countries that were represented were in North America and Central American, except for the obvious China and Italy, which are easy countries to get food from. So every grade was making and selling food from these countries in order to raise money for their class. There was also a little representation of each country on a stage. And in between those times, there were blaring music, it was so loud almost the whole time, that I had to shout in order to be heard.

I was helping out 11th grade (the seniors) who had the country of Honduras. They also have this country because it always raises the most money. And we all know how much seniors need money. It was pretty fun, I actually didn’t have to help that much because parents were so involved, it was more helping with the setup.

Saturday I went back to a little village called San Buena Ventura to continue building a church there. We are making a little stage now and trying to fill about a 3 by 10 foot gap with dirt. We are also flattened the ground in a lot of area of the church. My back was killing me the next day, actually for the next few days.

This week we got back to normal school, which was very nice because I’m teaching basic hermeneutics to all my classes. Which means I only have to prepare one lecture for all my Bible classes. Also this week I started helping coach the 8th and 9th grade soccer team. Right now we are just conditioning, so, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. We actually go to this place called the Olympic Village, it’s where the countries best track runners are, as well as other athletes. There is a soccer field, in which there is a really nice rubber track circling around.

We run about 2 miles every practices (coaches included). There is so so much complaining!! When I played soccer in 10th grade, we ran 2 miles just to warm-up!! And there is a pretty good amount of bad attitudes as well. Our best player may end up getting cut because he is so disrespectful, we will see what happens next week. But I’m pretty excited about helping coach.

Right now, as I’m writing this blog, it is report card day and so that means no school for the students, but for me I have to talk to parent for 4 hours.

Oh, and the mission trip that my brother (Tim) in leading is going to be really really cool. It will be on March 1st – the 7th. There are going to have so much to do that it might be better for them to stay 2 or 3 more weeks! If only that were possible. I’m really excited about it though, and I’m trying to get a few days off of school in order to hang out with them. We will see how that goes.