Now, in England we don't really have "Spelling Bees" and even if we do they are not quite like the ones they hold in America which are big important events in the calendar each year. Being a bilingual school, Blanca Jeanette Kawas has many of the same school traditions as American schools and this year they held their Third Annual Spelling Bee Competition. Being the only teacher that does not teach in the afternoons I was invited to be one of the 2 judges at t...

So it was Anna's birthday on February 9th (the big 1-9) and we celebrated with a very adventurous weekend. On Saturday we headed into town for a cake and liquado breakfast, before spending the morning relaxing on the beach under the shade of the palm trees, unable to resist buying all of the food the local women were selling from their head baskets! Which leads me to a much anticipated, long awaited for…..bread update: We recently discovered a new kind of br...

So on New Years eve Mali and I decided that we wanted to do something that we've never been allowed/able to do before…set off fireworks all by ourselves!! :D Now, there is probably a good reason that we have never done it before, but when in Honduras that all becomes irrelevant, as we had found out a few days before when a stray firework came flying towards us set off by a kid that looked about 10!! Anyway, we stopped at the firework shack (located on the si...

So Christmas Eve and Christmas Day turned out to be two of the oddest, yet most, amazing days of my life! We left home (Graciela and Raul's) fairly early on the 24th and arrived in Ceiba at the ferry port around 12 thinking we would have to hang around until the ferry left at 4. Luckily/unluckily, depending on how you look at it, they were just about to send the smaller ferry (which we later found out has been aptly named "The Vomit Comet") across with a whole...

So on Thursday, for the second time in my life, I spent a ridiculously long (4hours!!), bumpy bus journey sitting on a plastic stool in the central isle of a bus. Yes, that has happened to me twice…the first time being in Albania!! Needless to say it was not the most comfortable start to the holidays. :D YES, the holidays have finally begun!! I am currently in Copan, the only Mayan site in Honduras, because it is (of course) the end of the world…and where ...