Sorry it's been so long! It's hard to stalk someone when they can't keep you updated with their lives! Hahaha. Anywhoooooo, it's been a month since I've written, probably because nothing much has been going on I suppose. Everything, like I said before is just "normal" now. The kids are still as crazy/psychotic as usual. 2 weeks ago we had "Fun Day". During the week it was dress up days, Monday was crazy hair, tues was pjs, wed was sports, and thurs was fancy dress. It turned out well, alot of kids, and almost all the teachers participated. That week was also Valentine's Day. So it was a pretty laid back week. Valentine's day we had a party with the whole school at the end of the day, it was fun. So then came Friday, Fun Day. It was chaotic! But fun! We saw stuff I didn't think I'd ever see in my life. So, we didn't have classes, but everyone went to school to play games and such, it's a fundraiser the 10th grade does to raise money, kinda like a FunFair. Onlyyyyyy much different. There is a place called the jail. Students can pay to put their friends in, but it's much more fun to put their teachers in. So low & behold I went in....3 times. To get out, it cost 10 lempira. (about 50cents). When you get put in jail, if you're a student, they do EVERYTHING they can to get you up there. The older kids were like the officers, so they literally picked kids up and dragged them up there. It was insane. I went in, but willingly so, the first time in, my 5th graders put me there. I knew they were going to because they're not very sneaky at some things, they told me we're going to put you in jail. So that time I had to pay to get out. The second time, Mandy's 1st graders put me in. They thought it was HILARIOUS! It was just so funny to see them laughing hysterically when they got me in there. It was adorable! So I sat for a few minutes, the student who has Autism that I help with math spent the day in jail, it was calm and quiet, and everything else was chaos, so it was actually kinda nice going in cause I got to talk with him, but anyways, I was talking with him and he said it was time for me to go, so I was going to pay, but the "warden" came and said someone paid for me to get out. I get out, and thought the 1st graders were going to pee they were laughing so hard. They paid for me to get out, you would have thought it was Christmas. So that was cute. Then the third time I was walking with one of the teachers daughters and a sheriff came and grabbed us, she threw her egg shell that you crack & confetti comes out, threw it at him and ran, (I later told her mom she will never get stolen because she bolted haha, did the right thing) so he took me up to jail, but when I asked who put me there he said he couldn't tell, which happened to a few other teachers, so we think some shady business was going on. But that time, another teacher had a ticket to get me out, so I was free pretty fast. They had these eggs that had confetti in them, and you cracked them on each other, then they had "pies" which was just shaving cream (with methanol in it) that was pretty awesome......not. Then they had a "waterslide". It was pretty much just a mess all over, but Fun Day was crazy, and it was great to see the kids outside of class & to remind me they're still fun and awesome kids, they just have no desire to learn & love to make my life difficult in the class. Here are some pictures from that:
This was after the 1st graders paid to get me out of jail after putting me in:
This was Valentine's Day/Pajama day, the fifth graders just standing around:
Dress up day (With Ffarah with the crown on, it was her birthday, she's Mandy's assistant, her family has become our Hondruan family & the littlier one is Gilda, Kinder's assisstant, and then Mandy)
5th grade 'B' all dressed up, most of them
Ffarah & I
Throwing water balloons
Marin, Mandy, & I all wet & messy
One of my 5th graders "pieing" me
The methanol was wonderful in the eyes
All of 5th grade
Caios
The students waiting in line for tickets because selling them before would have been too easy
the waterslide
Ok, so I started writing this a couple weeks ago, but got incredibly lazy. So since then some more has gone on. A couple teachers from last year came to visit our friend Emily, so while they were here we went up to the hot springs. We only did the front part, which was just 2 big pools, basically big baths. The water was in fact though naturally coming out hot, so that was cool. The back parts that we hope to get to someday are supposed to be way cooler, more like a spa. But we went with our Honduran friend who owns the cafe we always go to, so he drove us up there, it was like a 40 min drive. It was nice, and something different to do for a Saturday night. We also had Mandy's aide and her family over. They told us we are in their family now. The mom and sister work in the Caseta at school, and they don't make us pay for food when we want to eat. They also took care of Mandy when she was sick, by making her tea and giving her food to make her better. They are so adorable, here's a picture of us at dinner:
in the pink is the mom, Rosa, next to her is the sister, Raquel, and then Ffarah, and the little girl drinking is Megan, Ffarah's daughter in 1st grade, and then the other girl is Angie, she is in 1st grade and just wanted to come to Miss Mandy's house, she was a surprise guest haha, she is a crazy child.
Let's seeeeeee, my students old teacher came to visit, so we had a party for her. She was their teacher in 3rd & 4th grade. My student's have been spoiled in that their 3/4th grade teacher stayed, then their teacher from last year is still here in 4th grade, so they have some kinda witch craft going on I think because I would love to stay another year too. Anyways, the old teacher had both classes to visit, so my class was second, which put me into a panic because the party was planned for right after lunch, and she wasn't going to come until like 30 min after it ended, I thought, what in the world are we going to do! But the students held it together, we played music and they danced, and "surprised" her when it was their time. They made a cool decoration by figuring out when the wind blows through the class, the balloons will stick so here's a picture of that, I took about 15 so they could show their teacher since it kept falling over when the wind would stop:
So I think that brings me up to date now. I'll write a whole seperate blog about Feria weekend. Because it was awesome! Here are a few other pictures of the teacher's and I just out and about:
These two are from La Pintada, the place up the mountain we tutor at
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