Sooooo the roads didn't get fixed, so we had a week off from school. No big deal haha. We get snow days in the states and mud days I guess down here. So this week kinda flew by. We didn't even do much, but sit around. Well, we did go to a pool Tuesday? I'm pretty sure that was the day, they all kinda blurred together haha. So at the pool I got a text saying no school the rest of the week so that was exciting. However, we were getting bored so we did manage to finally make it to the bird park. It's free for the teachers so why not go? And they gave us special prices for food there, for a cheeseburger or bbq chicken. The cheeseburger was amazing! It was by far the best piece of meat I've had since I've been down here. The park has just cages of animals and then there's a part that has an open area where they put birds on you. Weelllll I wasn't going to let those things near me, I don't know why, it's pretty cool, but the thought of birds sitting on me grossed/freaked me out for some reason. However, I gave into peer pressure and did it. It was definately a nice day we had there. So some teachers decided to travel to El Salvador for the weekend. Since some of our longer weekends are taken later in the year, they went now. I wanted to save money so I stayed, as well as some other teachers. So 5 of us decided we should do something to get out, so we went to Santa Rosa. It's a bigger town like 2 hours or so away. It was nice. There was more people and cars, and just in general bigger than here. The 5 of us had a nice time, walking the town, to literally every pulperia to find one of the teachers a pack of cigarettes. There used to be a rule there, no smoking on the streets, but they abolished that, but alot of the pulperias haven't caught on because we were all over trying to get her her niccotine fix, for all our sanity haha. So after that, we did some shopping and just had a nice time. We only went for the night, so it was inexpensive, but we still got outta Copan Ruinas. So the week off is now coming to an end, and we're all a bit nervous to go back to school since the kids were finally getting into a routine, and now we just had a week off. It'll be brutal I think, and with no long weekends until thanksgiving, I'm definately going to cherrish the weekends more lol. I also started tutoring a Honduran in English. He's a friend of one of the teacher's boyfriends, and it is going well, but I've come to realize I'm not very good at explaining things in English. He asks questions about when to use certain words, or he'll even ask about some metaphors he's read and I won't lie, I had to look a few up because I had no idea how to explain it to him. Good thing my 5th graders don't ask me tough questions haha. But it's good because we meet like 3 days a week, and eventually when he gets better at English, he'll help me with my conversation part of Spanish. So hopefullyyyyy I will be able to hold conversations. So that's about it for my week off. Nothing too exciting but the birds on me and getting away for a night. O! And the water is finally back! It's clearer too! They musta put a new pipe in because it doesn't come in so brown anymore. No drinking it still, but we feel better when doing the dishes at least. So have a good week! And Go Bears! (on Monday night of course, they NEED to win!)
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