Full Week of School

Well, first here's some pictures of the birds from the bird park and a couple of Santa Rosa, the bigger town we went to last weekend.....

 It's a little nicer than Coapn Ruinas, better streets definately

 We were higher up in the mountains too, higher altitude, but you couldn't really tell the difference, it was a little chillier, and by little it was pry like lower 70s haha

 I was a little freaked when he started putting the birds on me

 This birds name's is Polly...it laughed at me haha

 Cute center of town in Santa Rosa

So those are some of the pictures from our random week off, I have the rest on facebook, it's not like I have all day to put them on both lol.  Soooooo we went back to school this week.  It was a loooonngggg week for sure!  The kids could tell the difference too.  However, I think (and hope) that maybe now that we won't be having all these 4 day weeks, that the kids will finally get into a routine and the 5 days will get easier.  They were chatty, like usual, and for some reason after they eat lunch they are so difficult.  We have 2 periods after we have lunch and when we come back in for reading & english, they are difficult to control, they just talk and mess around.  So I'm working on that.  The mornings have been fabulous though!  So the week was alright, some days better than others at school, but because of that hurricane in Mexico we've been getting storms and alotttt of rain.  It rained everyday, some days it rained at school.  On Tuesday, we had to walk the kids from almost where we live, up the mountain to school, and then walk them down to the buses.  I told my kids, since they love to goof around, that if I see anyone push someone else into the mud, I'll put their face in the mud.  They seemed to like that I said that, and no one went in the mud haha.  Monday is our school spelling bee too!  I'm pretty excited, it's all boys representing 5th grade, and their good kids, so we're pretty excited to have them up there.  My student said when he saw the trophy in like a quiet, determined voice..."That trophy is mineee".  He was in it last year but didn't get to the finals.  Mandy's student in it is the daughter of her classroom aide.  So her aide, Ffarah and student Megan, came over this morning to practice.  Mandy is a judge for it, so she was the judge and me & Megan were in the bee.  Ffarah cooked us lunch, which was pasta with some kinda butter sauce and onions, it was awesome!  I only got one word wrong in the spelling bee too!  Haha, I wanted to make Megan more comfortable with struggling with spelling the words so she isn't so nervous tomorrow.  I think she liked it.  The rest of the weekend was pretty awesome too.  There were alot of backpackers in town.  They were pretty cool.  Mandy talked to one who survived a shark attack!  There were also a couple guys from Austria, their accent is difficult to understand.  Then some from Canada, Quebec I think.  There were pry like 8 in town.  It's so interesting to talk to people from all over, I love going out on the weekends because of that.  It was also really rainy, shocking, and I was wearing my old navy flip flops, and of course the floors in some of the bars are like procelin, so I was on my butt like 5 times because I was slipping around so much.  One of the backpackers was telling us about when they ate at the pizza place.  Wellllll, before he told us, we decided we were going to take a couple weeks off from watching the Bears because we spend money to watch crappy games and then it just makes our evenings bad.  So he told us when they were eating there, he felt something nibbling on his toe, well there's stray cats & dogs ALL OVER, so he didn't really think anything of it, until he looked and it was a big rat!  I was extremely grossed out and I don't know if I'll be able to eat there again.  We'll see.  I've also noticed I've become more at home because when we're out I catch myself staring at tourists.  Not to mention we talk about tourists, like "O did you see that gringo/tourist?"  The Hondurans are always starring, and I know I've starting doing the same.  I just stare, and don't realize it haha.  O well, when in Honduras...... Well that seems to be about it for the week.  Today is the 2 month mark til we're home for 3 weeks!  Also, a special day is Wednesday, my birthday!! Woo woooooo.  We'll see what the children have up their sleeves and next weekend we're gonna have people over, for the first time yessss and zip lining Saturday for another teacher's birthday.  So it should be a good week, I'm excited!  Ok, have a great week, GO BEARS!